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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)The past 25 years have seen the largest reduction in global inequality in human history [View all]
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/abs/10.1596/1813-9450-6259For that matter this has been the first period of declining global inequality since the Industrial Revolution began.
Over this same period, global hunger has fallen by two fifths:
http://www.ifpri.org/publication/2014-global-hunger-index
Do you expect global inequality to continue on this trend, or do you expect this situation will begin reversing itself? (The fact that I'm posting this in GD-P reveals my hypothesis that I imagine your answer to this question is strongly correlated with your candidate choice.)
11 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
I expect global inequality will continue to decrease for the foreseeable future | |
3 (27%) |
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I expect global inequality will be largely unchanged for the foreseeable future | |
0 (0%) |
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I expect global inequality will begin to increase at some point soon | |
0 (0%) |
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I believe any metric that shows global inequality to have decreased is hopelessly broken | |
8 (73%) |
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2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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Disclaimer: This is an Internet poll |
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The past 25 years have seen the largest reduction in global inequality in human history [View all]
Recursion
Mar 2016
OP
I mean, I'm fine with that blog post by Krugman, but my interpretation depends on your intention.
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#31
I think you would get higher quality responses if you didn't frame it in the context of the
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#34
On that, can anybody who took the fourth option explain what they think a better metric would be?
Recursion
Mar 2016
#6
I select "Pass" -- I don't doubt that global inequality has decreased. However:
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#8
Yep, thanks. And when has hill2016 ever said something rational? I have not seen it.
JonLeibowitz
Mar 2016
#22
According to Merriam Webster, a "citizen" actually refers to a member of some sort of state
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#17
This is GD:Primaries for the United States Presidency. Not Mars, Venus, or Kazakhstan
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#18
Ok thanks, I will pass that on the next time I meet the President of the United States of the World
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#12
The interesting thing is, assuming these statistics to be true, is that in that same time,
JDPriestly
Mar 2016
#35