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Re:We've Just Had the Best Decade in Human History by Isinlor on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:40AM (#21857686)
You should look at the data and not invent some silly comparisons to error rates. Poverty is declining both in absolute and relative terms.

There is less poor people now than there was 10 years ago.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

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Re:We've Just Had the Best Decade in Human History by mpax on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:30AM (#21906721)
Those data on poverty are a joke! Read for example: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/4/27/200-years-to-end-...

It's basically the World Bank covering its ass for its own spectacular failure.

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