Comments on: African Poverty is Falling…Much Faster than You Think! http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/african-poverty/ A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective Fri, 24 May 2013 00:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jso http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/african-poverty/#comment-202775 jso Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:25:51 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13269#comment-202775 if you like this story then you probably won’t want to see this:

http://urgentinvoke.com/(Link)

looks like someone’s got a hard on against capitalism for “stealing from the third world”

]]> By: Tim Worstall http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/african-poverty/#comment-202774 Tim Worstall Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:22:57 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13269#comment-202774 There are other papers which tell very much the same story.

http://econ.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/11950/AfricanGrowthMiracle.pdf

“Measures of real consumption based upon the ownership of durable goods,
the quality of housing, the health and mortality of children, the education of youth
and the allocation of female time in the household indicate that sub-Saharan living
standards have, for the past two decades, been growing in excess of 3 percent per
annum, i.e. more than three times the rate indicated in international data sets.”

Things really are getting better.

]]> By: Nuke Gray http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/african-poverty/#comment-202773 Nuke Gray Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:53:20 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13269#comment-202773 But, if African economies start to look good, who will we have to look down on?
I suppose there’ll always be the Muddle East.

]]> By: kentuckyliz http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/african-poverty/#comment-202772 kentuckyliz Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:39:59 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13269#comment-202772 So, those Nigerian phishing e-mails are working?

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