Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Non-fragile

"Gapminder" specializes in world-wide demographic statistics. You already know that global poverty is way, way down compared to the end of the last century. Here is some more insight from them about what will be necessary to bring down poverty in the future:

"Over the last 200 years, Extreme Poverty went from being "the global default" to becoming a "global exception". In the future, the last billion to get out of extreme poverty will mainly be living in Fragile States. The fight to end global poverty will therefor be a fight for peace and stability.
Presented here: http://buff.ly/2hDu5po"


Non-fragile economies empower people to create (material) growth because there's predictable lawful protection of property and contracts with at least some level of free markets.

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