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Irrespective of whether you rely on the international poverty line of $1.90 or a line that is many times higher: the share of people in poverty is falling globally.
(See the tweet below.)
The Guardian was claiming last month I’m wrong to say that.
What did we learn from this?
(See the tweet below.)
The Guardian was claiming last month I’m wrong to say that.
What did we learn from this?
For our work we learned that bad allegations help us. A lot. Many readers reached out, readership continued to increase.
So I guess from this perspective I have to thank The Guardian?
So I guess from this perspective I have to thank The Guardian?
But I think it left the public worse informed.
The Guardian commands a gigantic media empire and left many readers with the idea that development researchers and historians don’t do serious work. From this perspective I think the work at The Guardian was embarrassing.
The Guardian commands a gigantic media empire and left many readers with the idea that development researchers and historians don’t do serious work. From this perspective I think the work at The Guardian was embarrassing.
What was good was that there was some very thoughtful commentary.
The latest was Noah Smith’s text on global poverty reduction and colonialism: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
The latest was Noah Smith’s text on global poverty reduction and colonialism: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
To the @fhgferreira chart shared by @BrankoMilan I should add one caveat. It looks unfortunately different for the very poorest people on the planet as @MartinRavallion showed:
