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    1. Max Roser‏Verified account @MaxCRoser 30 Apr 2019

      – More than a third of the world population now live on more than 10 international-dollars per day. A decade decade ago it was a quarter. – The number of people who live on more than 10int.-$ per day increased by 900 million in the last 10 years. [From https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty ]pic.twitter.com/W9szJOMFuW

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    2. Max Roser‏Verified account @MaxCRoser 1 May 2019

      The world made important progress against extreme poverty. Economist's projections for the future however suggest there is little hope to end extreme poverty soon: Almost half a billion are expected to live in extreme poverty in 2030. [as always from http://OurWorldInData.org ]pic.twitter.com/jZDfbZoDno

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    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 May 2019
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      Why couldn't what happened in Asia happen in Africa?

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    4. Max Roser‏Verified account @MaxCRoser 1 May 2019
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      It could. And I would very much hope it does. But the recent past doesn't suggest it will. Consumption/income of the very poorest in the world has not increased (it’s not well known cause even the low int. poverty line is too high to capture it)https://voxeu.org/article/assessing-progress-poorest-new-evidence …

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    5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 May 2019
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      That graph suggests the Economist thinks there is something qualitatively different about Africa. It looks like a layer of softer stone eroding to reveal a layer of much harder stone beneath. What do they think the cause of this hardness is?

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    6. Max Roser‏Verified account @MaxCRoser 1 May 2019
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      In the starting section of our entry on the topic we explain: https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty#is-the-world-on-track-to-end-extreme-poverty-by-2030 … Is that helpful? The chart below is linked there. What’s different is growth. The countries that are the poorest today did not grow much recently or even got poorer.pic.twitter.com/nfpcDxxfEE

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    7. Max Roser‏Verified account @MaxCRoser 1 May 2019
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      Max Roser Retweeted Noah Smith  🐇

      That projection is just projecting economic growth over the last 10 years forwards to 2030. Very mechanical. (More projections are linked in the entry) Some have made made the point that important places in Africa have changed. Noah Smith for examplehttps://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1121077600766455808 …

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      1/Today's post is about one of the two most important things happening in the entire world (the other being climate change): AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION! https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-24/africa-s-only-way-out-of-poverty-is-to-industrialize …
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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 1 May 2019
      Replying to @MaxCRoser

      I believe the high bit of why Asia got richer was that it had previously been held back by leaders who prevented it from developing a middle class. When that sort of control erodes, it's like a dam bursting. Projecting the past seems a mismatch. Or am I missing something?

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        1. Have another beer‏ @7point8billion 1 May 2019
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          Opportunities to change is harder with an ever increasing population.pic.twitter.com/gKvmHXD5LS

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        1. James Crawford‏ @jrcrawf_ 1 May 2019
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          The rise of manufacturing in Asia was a primary driver as it was for the West during the Industrial Revolution. As someone who works with a manufacturer on the continent, Africa is not close to replicating that success but there is hope this will change.

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