Who knew that global poverty has been declining for decades? Hardly any one, as you will see in the video below. By now you have seen the documentation if you've followed the links in this series. But you may be wondering why so few know something so significant.
This article says that most of us have picked up strong perceptions to the contrary.
Hans Rosling, everybody's favorite Swedish statistics guy, addresses the misconceptions in this TED Talk he gave two years ago:
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