Year after year, the luminaries of international development, from Bill Gates to Jim Kim, Nick Kristof to Steven Pinker, line up to tell us about the wonderful progress that has been made against global poverty. According to the most recent estimates, published by the World Bank, there were “only” 734 million people living on less than $1.90 per day in 2015, down from 1.9 billion people in 1990.It sounds like wonderful news. But there is a problem with this narrative. Oddly enough, there is for the $1.90 line. It is an arbitrary threshold that has no grounding in actual...…Year after year, the luminaries of international development, from Bill Gates to Jim Kim, Nick Kristof to Steven Pinker, line up to tell us about the wonderful progress that has been made against global poverty. According to the most recent estimates, published by the World Bank, there were “only” 734 million people living on less than $1.90 per day in 2015, down from 1.9 billion people in 1990.It sounds like wonderful news. But there is a problem with this narrative. Oddly enough, there is for the $1.90 line. It is an arbitrary threshold that has no grounding in actual...WW…

Amazon. From the series Workforce Logistic Centres by Michele Borzoni.Something big is about to happen on the climate scene. It’s been stirring just beneath the headlines for a couple of years, and over the coming decade, it’s likely to change the conversation in powerful new ways. In the final months of 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) grabbed the world’s attention withwhich stated that to avert climate breakdown, we need to cut global emissions in half by 2030 and reach zero by 2050.It would be difficult to overstate how dramatic this trajectory is. We need...…Amazon. From the series Workforce Logistic Centres by Michele Borzoni.Something big is about to happen on the climate scene. It’s been stirring just beneath the headlines for a couple of years, and over the coming decade, it’s likely to change the conversation in powerful new ways. In the final months of 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) grabbed the world’s attention withwhich stated that to avert climate breakdown, we need to cut global emissions in half by 2030 and reach zero by 2050.It would be difficult to overstate how dramatic this trajectory is. We need...WW…