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African Poverty is Falling

A new NBER working paper African Poverty is Falling…Much Faster than You Think! from economists Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy argues that African poverty has been rapidly falling across Africa since 1995.  They use methods they use to look at … Continue reading

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World distribution of income

In a new paper, Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income, Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin revisit previous work by Sala-i-Martin, and estimate that globally income has substantially increased, reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty, and … Continue reading

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