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We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously

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My article from The Spectator: Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history.

Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60 per cent when I was born.

Global inequality has been plunging as Africa and Asia experience faster economic growth than Europe and North America; child mortality has fallen to record low levels; famine virtually went extinct; malaria, polio and heart disease are all in decline.

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