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    ❓ Trend quiz: ✈️ How well do you know aviation trends?

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  2. Part of the vaccine development process typically takes 2-3 years. UK scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine completed the process in 14 days, paving the way for trials to begin.

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  3. John Stuart Mill noted in 1828: "I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage." Unfortunately, it seems to be cool to be gloomy.

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  4. Even though the world population increased by more than two billion people between 1990-2015, the number of people in extreme poverty was reduced by almost 1.2 billion.

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  5. Nordhaus showed that the price of light collapsed because of innovation. Romer showed that human potential for innovation is infinite. These two men are well deserving of the Nobel Prize, the highest accolade in the discipline of economics.

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  6. This is the most important piece of news you'll hear in a while: More than half of the world's people are middle class. For the first time in history, the majority of mankind is no longer poor, or vulnerable to fall into poverty.

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    BBC: "[L]imited attempts to cut carbon that the world has adopted to date are having an impact and the worst emissions scenarios are no longer realistic."

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  8. Over 11% of Americans will be counted among the top 1% of income-earners (i.e. people making at minimum $332,000 per annum) for at least one year of their working life.

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  10. The "Washington Consensus" reforms of the 80s and 90s were labeled "neoliberal failures" as growth per capita remained below 0.3% in poor countries through 1998. However, the next 17 years saw GPC of 1.8% in such countries, a delayed result of the reforms.

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  11. As the knowledge of best medical practices spread and pharmaceutical drugs became more affordable, maternal mortality rates plummeted throughout the world, from 385 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 216 in 2015. That's a reduction of 44%.

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  12. Economic freedom isn't just about money. In the freest countries, people live on average 15 years longer than those in the least free nations.

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  13. From dish-washing tablets and laundry soaps to alcohol-based hand sanitizers and mounted hand soaps, disinfecting agents have become a staple of modern hygiene, helping to reduce illness and disease.

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  14. In 1775, U.S. gross domestic product per person stood at $1,883. In 2016, it stood at $53,015 – a 27-fold increase in the real standard of living.

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  15. Competition drives down profits, the German philosopher Karl Marx asserted, which forces business owners to cut corners and expose their workers to growing risks. Yet, by historical standards, work-related fatalities are at an all-time low.

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  16. Free market policies have been vilified and statist policies promoted by parts of the media and intelligentsia. One of the most consequential outcomes of that vilification seems to be the willingness of some people to ignore reality.

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  17. 📉 Between 1990 and 2016, the malaria death rate dropped from 14.2 per 100,000 infections to 9.7. 📉 Incidence declined from 15.8 in 10,000 people in 2000 to 9.4 in 2015.

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  18. All poverty lines are arbitrary in practice. But whatever line you set, the direction of travel is clear: The proportion of the global population in poverty is falling significantly.

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  19. By freeing women's time from household drudgery and offering women the economic bargaining power that comes with new employment opportunities, markets heighten women's material standard of living and foster cultural change.

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  20. "Because of our sanctions, the Iranian economy is doing very, very poorly." Limiting nations' ability to freely trade with the outside world makes them worse off--but it makes us worse off too, and inhibits progress.

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  21. New research and innovations have contributed to major declines in cancer-related deaths, helping U.S. life expectancy to increase in 2018. Explore US and global trends here:

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