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Regular reminder that extreme poverty has fallen hugely in recent decades and has never been this low in human history! Even after the short increase due to Covid, the improving trend recovered quickly: devinit.org/resources/pove…

RT @Nonicoc: "We study the wealth distribution in Sweden between 1999 and 2020, using new population-wide administrative data linked to nat…

An experiment in Nairobi's informal settlements found that parents usually made child-nutrition decisions cooperatively, and that fathers were at least as willing as mothers to allocate resources to their children's meals. voxdev.org/topic/social-p…

Anti-government protests held across Israel; 2,000 rally nationwide haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Why is buying heroin easier than hiring a hitman? @TheEconomist this week wrote about a new book, Moral Economics, by Alvin Roth, Nobel laureate and SIEPR senior fellow, that looks at markets for "repugnant transactions." Here, Roth explains all: youtube.com/watch?v=hrE6vi…

@D_Langenmayr @BachmannRudi She might be unwell

@BachmannRudi Strange. I don't know of any university where you need to be immatriculated to defend your thesis (usually, there is a maximum period that you can be immatriculated as a PhD student, but some PhD students take substantially longer)... It doesn't sound like the full story

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This is a consistent pattern every year, not just for 2025:

Nearly half of the founders of billion-dollar tech startups are immigrants

@FranzSchellhorn Hmm, IWF Zahlen sagen etwas anderes zur wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung unter Milei. Hier reales GDP Wachstum, reales GDP Wachstum pro Person und Arbeitslosigkeit:

Wer den Vortrag von Argentiniens Deregulierungsminister Federico Sturzenegger verpasst hat – hier ist die zweite Chance. 12.000 Gesetze gestrichen, 300+ Behörden geschlossen, die Inflation von 220 auf 42 Prozent gesenkt, das Wachstum der Wirtschaft um 10 Prozent erhöht. Wie echte Reformen aussehen, gibt es hier nachzuschauen 👇 agenda-austria.at/sturzenegger-v…

Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 22% compared to this time last year!

A stark warning this week, shared at the UN: The status quo in Gaza is at risk of becoming permanent. A future where 2 million Palestinians are trapped in displacement, despair and endless war is not security for anyone. Israelis and Palestinians both deserve a path beyond Hamas rule and Israeli occupation – before this nightmare hardens into a picture of the future. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Dan Perry’s (@perry_dan) warning is worth reading: Ben-Gvir isn’t some fringe sideshow. He’s the product of years of extremism, dehumanization and permanent occupation being normalized inside Israeli politics. The cruelty on display in the flotilla video was a glimpse of where this movement is taking Israel. As American Jews, we need to fight against this and work with Israelis who are seeking a different future. forward.com/opinion/826963…

An experiment in Nairobi's informal settlements found that parents usually made child-nutrition decisions cooperatively, and that fathers were at least as willing as mothers to allocate resources to their children's meals.

The latest OWID Brief newsletter is out on Substack! It delivers all our recent work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data, right to your inbox twice a month. This edition: Our new population projections tool, childhood stunting, China’s electricity growth, and much more. In each edition we also share some of what our team has been reading lately. This time: an updated career guide from the nonprofit 80,000 Hours, and an FT article by John Burn-Murdoch where he makes the case that smartphones and digital media play a role in falling fertility rates.

Mehr 👏 Wohnungen 👏 bauen 👏!

Great chart on how little a role income taxes play and how large a role payroll taxes play for most Americans. From a wonderful old post by @M_C_Klein on what a populist tax cut might look like. ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/05/04/218…

Further narrative violations: Zoomers are making higher salaries for their age, even when adjusted for inflation, than any generation before. And Zoomers are buying houses at a rate FASTER than Millennials did at the same age. The sky is not falling.

What the cameras caught Ben Gvir doing to the flotilla activists is only the tip of the iceberg. Behind closed doors, far from any cameras, he and his prison guards inflict far worse on Palestinian prisoners — a hundred thousand times over.

Das Verhalten des Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir ist beschämend und verantwortungslos. Es widerspricht den Grundsätzen des israelischen Rechtsstaates und jüdischen Werten. Der SIG folgt dem European Jewish Congress und distanziert sich in aller Form von Itamar Ben-Gvirs Verhalten.

My favourite development conference. Stellar keynotes and this year by the sea, organized by the amazing team at the University of Alicante Marianna Battaglia, Nicolas Roig and Teresa Molina-Millán. Do not miss the deadline!

If you only count the progressive taxes the U.S. levies, then the U.S. system is quite progressive. But if you also count regressive taxes (payroll taxes, sales taxes, etc), it's not very progressive.