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Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis
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Italy rated one of the hardest countries for foreigners to settle in
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Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries
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India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
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Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (2014)
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A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth
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The South Asian Polycrisis
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The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid
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The world is awful, the world is much better, the world can be much better
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Hispaniola's great divergence
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Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes
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Indonesia: The most amazing development story on Earth?
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The most livable cities
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Basement Fertility
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Shortsightedness has become an epidemic
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Marriage and luxury beliefs at the United Nations
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How illiterate people use their mobile phones (2012)
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If it were my home
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The history of the end of poverty has just begun
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Once poor, always poor?
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Americans overestimate social mobility in their country
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Countries that have accepted the World Passport
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Financial literacy is a passport to financial freedom
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Nearly 80% of households in Lebanon don't have food or money to buy food
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The Brazilianization of the World
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How do we know the history of extreme poverty? (2019)
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Against Hickelism
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Why northern Europe is so indebted
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U.S. citizens no longer have access to most of the world
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The Importance of India
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The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor
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Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world
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Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born
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Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor
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28% of Europeans Can't Afford a 1 Week Annual Holiday
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Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty
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Civic honesty around the globe
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Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says
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Show HN: Building computer labs in schools in Africa
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A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
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The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)
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Experiment that ended in 1767 still linked to higher incomes, education levels
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Facts and charts that show the world is getting better
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Predict Economic Indicators with OpenStreetMap
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Statistics, Fast and Slow
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The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe
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Causes and consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
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Socioeconomic sorting at the metropolitan level is making America more polarized
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How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar
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How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
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An Italian Region Where Co-Ops Produce a Third of GDP (2016)
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Income Inequality (2016)
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A link between polygamy and war
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Return of the city-state
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Activity inequality
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Poverty is not a personal choice, but a reflection of society
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Happy nations don't focus on growth
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The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940
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How The Economist covers the world
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Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth
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Is It Better to Be Poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi Delta?
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The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)
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The perils of reporting on China's GDP
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The Price of Anarchy
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Global living conditions are getting better
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The States That College Graduates Are Most Likely to Leave
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Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf]
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Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent
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One Dollar Glasses – Help for 150M people
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Switzerland is the world’s most competitive economy
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A century of trends in adult human height
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The effects of living in a poor neighborhood
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Today's rich families in Florence were rich 700 years ago
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Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures
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The City States of Europe
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Are cities the new countries?
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New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India
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Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most
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Poor Little Rich Women
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Maps that illustrate the global economy
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The Great Chinese Exodus
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How We Get Tall
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Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive?
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Vienna again named world's most liveable city
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Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash are an Effective Form of Aid to the Poor
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Map collection
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Europe's Record Youth Unemployment
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Angry young Indians: What a waste
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India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement
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Why nations fail
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Africa's Amazing Rise and What it Can Teach the World
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Website calculates how your life might be like in another country
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"Basically, It's Over" by Charlie Munger
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Why Poor Countries Are Poor
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The end of Haiti?
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Reason: Why poor countries are poor.
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Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
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The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the largest industrial co-op
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Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
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Mondragon as the new city-state
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