Average life expectancy for girls born in 2057 will be 100?!
28 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
HT: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2912391/Now-s-gran-old-age-Average-life-expectancy-girls-born-2057-ONE-HUNDRED.html
The Great Escape was very real: infant mortality version
23 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: infant mortality, The Great Escape
People queued up for hours when polio vaccine first became available
22 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccines
What Oxfam doesn’t want you to know: global capitalism means there’s less poverty than ever » Spectator Blogs
19 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Leftover Left, Oxfam, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
We are, right now, living through the golden age of poverty reduction.
Anyone serious about tackling global poverty (and I’m afraid we have to exclude Oxfam from this category) has to accept that whatever we’re doing now, it’s working – so we should keep doing it.
We are literally on the road to an incredible goal: the abolition of poverty, as we know it, within our lifetime.
Those who care more about helping the poor than hurting the rich will celebrate the fact – and make sure free trade and global capitalism keep spreading so as to finish the job.
There has been tremendous medical progress against the key modern killers
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: medical progress, The Great Escape
The declining lethality of heart disease, #cancer, & stroke
(USA, last 50 years)nyti.ms/1D7d23O http://t.co/6Gh1ce3a4n—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) January 10, 2015
The Great Escape: survival rates from leukaemia
13 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Quacks, The Great Escape
A coal mine elevator, 1900
12 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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