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“randomistas.” These are researchers who have had enough of the intuition, gut feelings, and ideological bickering of ivory-tower scholars about the needs of people struggling in Africa and elsewhere. What the randomistas want is numbers–incontrovertible data to show which aid helps, and which doesn’t.

In sales and marketing, if you run a big business in Europe or the United States, you and your employees need to understand that the world market of the future will be growing primarily in Asia and Africa, not at home.

money and its big brother, gross domestic product (GDP), are poor measures of well-being and happiness.33 Other indicators of social health and happiness not only exist, but are far more revealing. The Human Development Index published by the United Nations Development Programme bundles national income with data about health and education. The Gend

Apesar de enfrentarmos enormes desafios, fizemos tremendo progresso. Essa é a visão de mundo baseada em fatos.

Half of humankind is expected to be overweight by 2030.

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

Seventy percent of people don’t know that the majority of mankind lives in Asia.

Je crois que les derniers à sortir de l’extrême pauvreté seront les fermiers les plus pauvres, ceux qui vivent sur des terres à bas rendement, et au milieu ou à proximité de conflits militaires. Cela représente aujourd’hui probablement 200 millions de personnes, dont seulement un peu plus de la moitié vivent en Afrique. Il est certain que leurs per