This is like the third exchange I've seen of a wealthy ex-pat who starts off politely saying something to this effect, but then they let the mask slip. I did a quick search of their history, and they refer to Evo as a dictator. https://twitter.com/lukeisamazing/status/1194100981644111873 …
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Spending the rest of tonight educating myself on the possible reasons for why this graph is the way it is: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41208/1/MPRA_paper_41208.pdf …
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There's evidence that the cash transfers had an effect on this, but education appears to be the most important. The two would seem to be interlinked for me.
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Replying to @granderojo
the problem is youre getting into macroeconomic counterfactuals
really hard to say what would have happened in bolivia absent whatever morales did
you can kind of get at some really awful or good policies in a basically-trustworthy way but really hard to do more1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @eigenrobot @granderojo
good comparison cases if you must: other latam countries with similar %poverty rates at the beginning, over the same period other, similar countries globally over the same period best case scenarios for change in %poverty from that point, historically
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Replying to @eigenrobot
This is why you're the economist, and I'm just a fella reading a paper. It still feels cozy knowing a 2/3 of those in extreme poverty are not.
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yeah it's a delight if you wanna feel really good check global figures :)
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