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Mark Davies

Tackling poverty? Give people money.

Last year the Overseas Development Institute reviewed 165 studies into 56 cash transfer programs in 30 different countries to find out their true effectiveness. The findings showed that cash transfers had improved school attendance and reduced child labour, boosted access to healthcare, improved and diversified…

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Mark Davies

World population

Within five years India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country and then move far ahead. In 2050 the world’s third most populous country after India and China will be Nigeria — just ahead of the US. In 1950, Europe’s population was three…

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Mark Davies

World population

Within five years India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country and then move far ahead. In 2050 the world’s third most populous country after India and China will be Nigeria — just ahead of the US. In 1950, Europe’s population was three…

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Mark Davies

Reasons to be cheerful...

I love this positive piece from Philip Collins. Worth quoting his reasons at length. We are living through a long arc of progress and it will take more than Nigel Farage to bend it backwards. Democracy is not in peril; it is thriving. More than four…

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Mark Davies

Reasons to be cheerful...

I love this positive piece from Philip Collins. Worth quoting his reasons at length. We are living through a long arc of progress and it will take more than Nigel Farage to bend it backwards. Democracy is not in peril; it is thriving. More than four…

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