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The Best Year in Our History?

Geoff Riley

27th December 2016

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"Extreme poverty, child mortality, illiteracy, and global inequality are at historic lows; vaccinations, basic education, including girls, and democracy are at all-time highs."

Steven Pinker tries to change the narrative on the gloomy end of year assessments. Read his article here. And there is plenty more good news to share!

Global median income has almost doubled between 2003 and 2013.

As always, from: https://t.co/W3jYzkv76R pic.twitter.com/yckLpfLq4l
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) December 27, 2016

The worldwide number of deaths from malaria has fallen by almost half since 2005. https://t.co/b8CMquPFeT pic.twitter.com/7YtVEH7poj
— Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 (@DinaPomeranz) December 25, 2016

This chart! World average cost of producing energy from solar photovoltaic is now the same as from coal. https://t.co/b8SKuIIyIH pic.twitter.com/VRgmaAnrOl
— Ignacy Morawski (@iggnacy) December 27, 2016

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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