Saturday, January 23, 2010

World Poverty is Falling

Maxim Pinkovskiy (MIT) and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Columbia University) write in Vox that world poverty is disappearing faster than what was previously thought.

Here is a striking illustration of their research on the world distribution of income, flatly contradicting earlier worries.










Hat tip: Tyler Cowen (Marginal Revolution).

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