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Recent improvements to interactive scatterplots
How much will it cost to mitigate climate change?
Link between health spending and life expectancy: The US is an outlier
Structural transformation: how did today’s rich countries become ‘deindustrialized’?
Global renewables are growing, but are only managing to offset the decline in nuclear production
Carbon intensity in China’s recent history – Politics matters a lot in achieving both prosperity and sustainability
What is my risk of dying prematurely from air pollution?
Air pollution: does it get worse before it gets better?
No matter what extreme poverty line you choose, the share of people below that poverty line has declined globally
What are PPP adjustments and why do we need them?
The size of the poverty gap: some hints regarding the cost of ending extreme poverty
The global decline of extreme poverty – was it only China?
Extreme poverty in rich countries: what we know and what we don’t know
Homelessness and poverty in rich countries
Children and poverty: evidence from new World Bank data
Global child mortality: it is hard to overestimate both the immensity of the tragedy, and the progress the world has made
Does the impressive historical decline in poverty capture non-market transactions?
What we have done in the last 6 months
Recent improvements in cross-country taxation data
How global inequality changed from 2003 to 2013 and what we can expect for the future