The economic gains are also something to marvel at. Achieving $1.1 trillion in economic benefits split across the population of the poorer half of the world

Since 1950, the world has been on an unprecedented path of technological and economic convergence, and the gains have been much broader than income alone. Throughout the developing world, life expectancy has been rising, years of schooling have increased, rates of extreme poverty have been falling, and employment has been shifting away from manual