17 April 2014 |
Capitalism and the Dalai Lama |
Mass media - News Sala i Martín |
Arthur C. Brooks / NYTimes
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[...] Historically, free enterprise has done this to astonishing effect. In a remarkable paper, Maxim Pinkovskiy of M.I.T. and Xavier Sala-i-Martin of Columbia University calculate that the fraction of the world’s population living on a dollar a day — after adjusting for inflation — plummeted by 80 percent between 1970 and 2006. This is history’s greatest antipoverty achievement [...] - Link to the whole article |