![]() ![]() We have cars and plumbing and our kids go to university. You know what this world is like because if you are reading this you live in it. Most of the world’s one billion truly poor no longer live in Africa.And lastly the more than $32 a day world. You have a motor scooter and some basic plumbing and your kids may get a secondary education. ![]() You are doing some serious social climbing, perhaps in a more urban setting. You may have a semi-skilled job and a bike, you wear shoes, and perhaps there is a tap or standpipe close to your house and your kids will go to primary school. In this world you live in a block-built hut, or a single room in a town, you wear flip flops and work in the fields or a low wage factory, and your children spend much of their day carrying water. Firstly, the (US) “dollar a day” world that is our image of Africa – except most of the world’s one billion truly poor no longer live in Africa. Rosling is like a magician pulling any number of counter intuitive rabbits out of hats, all backed up with carefully analyzed hard data that refutes one’s many prejudices.įorget the “third world”. ![]() The book is written as a series of narratives, straightforward and personal, beguilingly concealing their academic strength. Unfortunately it is also his farewell – he died in 2017 of carcinoma of the pancreas at the age of 68. Well, we all know wrong.For those who don’t know the groundbreaking work of Hans Rosling, Factfulness is a brilliant introduction. We all know that the world is going to hell in a handcart …. ![]()
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