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The FT’s Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch look at the measures for poverty and inequality and unpick the argument that capitalism is benefiting everyone
Links:
The key points of disagreement in the debate over capitalism and poverty reduction – https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18215534/bill-gates-global-poverty-chart
“Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong” – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-gates-davos-global-poverty-infographic-neoliberal
Is the world really getting poorer? A response by Steve Pinker – https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/is-the-world-really-getting-poorer-a-response-to-that-claim-by-steve-pinker/
World Bank PovCalNet — calculate poverty distributions for a poverty line of your choice – http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/povOnDemand.aspx
Share of global population living in extreme poverty including and excluding China – https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/poverty-decline-without-china?time=1981..2015
Distribution of population between different poverty threshold — proportions – https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-poverty-thresholds?stackMode=relative
Distribution of population between different poverty threshold — numbers – https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-poverty-thresholds
Life expectancy at birth — World Bank – https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=1W-CN
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