New Blog: "MDG4: A dramatic decline in child mortality over the last 20 years" blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/mdg4-… #opendata http://t.co/lSAS8SU5Od—
World Bank Data (@worldbankdata) July 16, 2015
The Great Escape in infant mortality is still on-going
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, child mortality, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Measles cases and measles deaths in the USA
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, health economics, politics - USA Tags: measles commonly anti-vaccination movement, The Grade Escape, The Great Fact, vaccines
Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet
26 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics Tags: Fossil Fuels, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The world poverty rate has been reduced by 80% since 1970
25 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
@larry_kudlow @LarryKudlowShow @jason_trennert @MarkPMills The world poverty rate has been reduced by 80% since 1970 http://t.co/KfDG4HBi09—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 30, 2015
Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy on inequality and growth in living standards
23 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
Capitalism and Pope Francis
22 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of religion, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, East Asian Tigers, Latin American popularism, Pope Francis, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/620591953290375169/photo/1
Pope's plan to curtail use of fossil fuels will hurt the poor, see chart and @FurchtgottRoth tinyurl.com/oy5w5o3 http://t.co/YWEloL04MK—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) June 21, 2015
Equality lacks relevance if the poor are growing richer
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism Tags: capitalism and freedom, Deirdre McCloskey, life expectancies, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, top 1%
The remarkably rapid diffusion of cell phones in Africa
16 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, cell phones, international technology diffusion, technology diffusion, The Great Fact
Is organic farming sustainable farming?
16 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: agricultural economics, food snobs, organic farming, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
And the rich got richer, who cares
16 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, entrepreneurial alertness, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, top 1%
"The rich got richer, true. But…" —@DeirdreMcClosk buff.ly/1Imdv4o http://t.co/M3ERx3JTIn—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 28, 2015
Evidence grows of mass kidnappings of Oxfam activists – how else could they have been silenced?
15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, technological progress Tags: activists, do gooders, extreme poverty, global poverty, infant mortality, Left-wing hypocrisy, life expectancies, mass kidnappings, ODA, overseas aid, Oxfam, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/621132860657897472/photo/1
The biggest success of our time: Child mortality is decreasing rapidly. Everywhere!
More at: OurWorldInData.org/data/populatio… http://t.co/FhdbQeheUd—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) July 13, 2015
Staggering #inequality: top 1% will own 50% of world's wealth by 2016. Help #EvenitUp! act.oxfam.org/new-zealand/ev… http://t.co/KX9GR2VSo5—
Oxfam New Zealand (@oxfamnz) January 19, 2015
Fossil fuel companies get more subsidies than all the public health spending globally. It's time to #GoCoalFree http://t.co/gsDIocxAq9—
Oxfam New Zealand (@oxfamnz) June 08, 2015
Europe at night
14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics Tags: Europe, The Great Fact
Europe at Night http://t.co/kfcGA5qE8y—
Earth Pictures™ (@EarthBeauties) July 06, 2015
Global poverty is in free fall – what does Oxfam have to say about what caused this?
14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, ODA, overseas aid, Oxfam, professional activists, professional do-gooders, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The world is getting better all the time, in 11 maps and charts vox.com/2015/7/13/8908… http://t.co/cBbN4L0dqF—
Vox (@voxdotcom) July 13, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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