The Swedish statistician and physician Hans Rosling explains in this excellent TED Talk how infant mortality, population growth, economic disparity etc. between rich and poor countries have been improving in the past few decades. The animated statistics are brilliant and the take home message is that the world is not going to hell in a handbasket. On the contrary, poverty and misery have been disappearing and the developing world has been rapidly moving toward the middle. Most of the world is now middle income with the health and life quality outcomes in line with that.
What are your thoughts on this?
A very welcome message in the face of the tide of misfortune that dominates the mainstream news stream. Another interesting source, in the same vein, is Matt Ridley's book "The Rational Optimist" whose reading I recommend.
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While he has a point that the developing world are better, I would like to point that countries with terrorist related issues, currencies devaluation and global oil boom collapse are obviously not in good shape as to the improvement to move higher in standard of living. Therefore, I would better just say few out of the many developing countries are making progress while most are battling with internal crisis.
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Yes. Rosling touches on that at some point pointing out the vast differences between different, say, African or Asian countries. He says that solutions to the problems he's discussing should be "highly contextualized".
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its nice to hear something positive from the news. normally you hear sad stuff but this is a surprise.
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No news is good news. However, good news, in this case, would be news to most people who've been fed nothing but but bad news so far.
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He cannot speak on behalf of the rest of the world! What he knows is all data from the western sources, perspectives and paradigms! Statistics depends on the numbers and quantifiable data which is measurable.
People’s Weltanchuuang are different! It’s all very subjective to me!
What you see depends on the colored glasses you are wearing.
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What do you mean by "western sources"?
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