The incredible miracle in poor country development
The amazing improvement in the quality of life of the world’s poor people should be common knowledge by now. For example, you have the now-famous “elephant graph”, by Branko Milanovic, showing recent income growth at various levels of the global income distribution: This graph shows that over the la…
The lost generation: Children in conflict zones
Adel Abdel Ghafar and Fraus Masri A catastrophic by-product of ongoing conflicts in the Middle East is a lost generation of unschooled children. These children find themselves, through no fault of their own, not only displaced but lacking the opportunity for proper schooling and thus, denied a chanc…