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Declining child mortality – fast and slow

From the Economist: THE frequent death of children before their fifth birthday is both a disaster for their parents and one of the most reliable indicators of country-wide poverty. …  One of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals requires that by … Continue reading

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if history = people x years

From Two thousand years in one chart | The Economist. SOME people recite history from above, recording the grand deeds of great men. Others tell history from below, arguing that one person’s life is just as much a part of … Continue reading

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Peak Travel?

A new paper in Transport Reviews by Adam Millard-Ball and Lee Schipper asks Are We Reaching Peak Travel? Trends in Passenger Transport in Eight Industrialized Countries. Ball and Schipper looked at data from 1970-2008 in the United States, Canada, Sweden, … Continue reading

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