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Tripitaka comments on The Triumph of Humanity Chart - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: Dias 26 October 2015 01:41AM

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Comment author: SolveIt 26 October 2015 10:10:03AM 4 points [-]

What happened in 1970 that poverty started sharply declining?

Comment author: Tripitaka 26 October 2015 12:47:37PM 9 points [-]

Seems to be mostly Asia getting richer. Hans Rosling gives a very impressive talk with amazing visuals about that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w You can also play with the data for yourself http://www.gapminder.org/world