If any of you would care to read the actual argument against Pinker's simplistic narrative of global poverty, you can do so here. Nothing like muddying the waters with... facts.https://www.academia.edu/21593862/The_True_Extent_of_Global_Poverty_and_Hunger_Questioning_the_Good_News_Narrative_of_the_Millennium_Development_Goals …
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You might find this piece useful. Hot of the press, co-authored by Charles Kenny of the Center for Global Development, formerly of the World Bank... might help cut through some of the confusion in the debate out there.https://www.cgdev.org/blog/12-things-we-can-agree-about-global-poverty …
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Most progs don't "hate" progress, but there's an irrational fear that acknowledging it will curtail efforts. We activists must remind them that acknowledging wins is vital to show our efforts matter. The FAR left genuinely want it all to burn down for their fantasy phoenix.
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As someone who read (and loved) Enlightenment Now, I find it hard to believe that the same author who wrote it is also someone who would castigate all progressives because he encountered a few shady detractors worthy of mocking.
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That's why he used the word progressives with quotation marks, to address the few detractors, not all of them.
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I find it hard to imagine a world where criticism of half of the electorate (including a damning faux-Lenin quote) could be reasonably excused because of a couple of quotation marks. His writing and academic work are far more precise than that.
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And this is obviously an academic platform, where one needs to be precise and use five significant figures with standard deviations, higher moments of a distribution, etc.?
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Don't trust the Cato Institute. They're a libertarian think-tank with vested interest in deregulated markets, especially regarding energy and climate as they're directly funded by fossil fuel interests. They've no interest in balanced information.
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As much of a failure that "trickle down economics" has proven to be, it's unsurprising that defending it now requires long winded, obfuscating misrepresentations like this.
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May have something to do with the right lauding the fact that there are fewer people living on less than $1.90 per day. When you set the bar that low progress is easy. Proud that we have set a standard that our domestic animals in the US could not live on....think I will pass.
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If you read the article you’ll see that whatever threshold you choose you get similar results. And yes, it’s not the left who get the credit
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"They" rarely read the articles and "they" certainly do t understand mathematics when "they" always refer to the 1.90 benchmark Embarrassing really
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China, that bastion of neo-liberal free market capitalism, is responsible for most of the gains in poverty reduction; the gains across the rest of the global south (esp. those who’ve had structural adjustment programmes forced on them), not so good.
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Cato !!! ??? Are you spreading propaganda ? I've got your book and I'm not able to finish it... PLEASE: reassure me.
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I know it's Twitter, but for such a broad statement, a definition of "progressive" is required -- or at least the use of the word "some".
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Doublespeak much?
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Try explaining the double speak. That’s too much like work though, isn’t it?
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