Finally got around to reading it. What an awesome paper (and example of how careful descriptive stats can be enlightening)!

“The share of the global population living in extreme poverty fell dramatically from an estimated 44% in 1981 to 9% in 2019” 📉 Mostly over lifetimes, not over generations Nice descriptives in "How Poverty Fell" - @vinnyarmentano.bsky.social Niehaus & Vogl 📄: econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/pa... 📻: 👇

#India has undermined a popular myth about #Development: economist.com/finance-and-... #Geography

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

How did such a large share of the world’s population escape extreme poverty? Paul Niehaus, Tom Vogl and I were curious and are excited to share with you what we've found. vincentarmentano.com/research/hpf...