Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China?

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The GC Wealth Project's @Ignacio_Flores discusses Distribuciones, the new Spanish-language site on inequality in Latin America that he recently launched with Pablo Arriagada P., Mauricio De Rosa and @Marc_Morgan

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The World Bank published today the new poverty data, covering the period of the pandemic up to 2022.

After decades of progress, the world saw the first increase in extreme poverty during COVID.

How much progress has been made toward women’s political equality? How far do we still have to go?

For #InternationalWomensDay , I have written an article @OurWorldinData on women’s political rights and representation:

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¡Estamos muy emocionados de anunciar el lanzamiento de distribuciones.info! 🌐

Un recurso dedicado a compartir los datos y hallazgos de nuestra investigación sobre la distribución del crecimiento económico en Latinoamérica en español.

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Do governments worldwide have the ability to implement their policies and achieve their goals?

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The Human Development Index increased in all world regions over the last three decades.

What this tells us about the world is the question that my colleagues Bastian Herre and Pablo Arriagada P. answer in their new explainer article:
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Por fin! Se publicó Las Últimas Composiciones de Violeta Parra! latercera.com/culto/2023/11/…

The Human Development Index and related indices seek to measure development beyond simply economic growth.

How do these indices work? And what can we learn from them?

Pablo Arriagada P. and I discuss in our new article Our World in Data:

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My TED Talks is now online.

I argue that we have the opportunity to build a world where we can all live well, and tackle our environmental problems at the same time.

This is possible, but not inevitable. We have to push to make that a reality.

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Fascinating finding and very much in line with my own experience. Politicians somehow see the people they talk to as the 'real people' and see social media and polls as the 'bubble'. They forget how strongly biased the selection of people is who talk to them, come to their events