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The fight against poverty isn’t over

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n the two centuries since Thomas Malthus assured us that poverty is inevitable, entire societies have left it behind, says Max Roser. Take Sweden. In 1820, the vast majority of the population lived in extreme poverty. Every fourth child died and close to

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