My background is in development economics, and it's amazing how the majority of the developed world thinks a trend is going one way (increasing abject poverty) when the data actually says the exact opposite.
"The world’s most important economic story can be told in a single line."
If only the most important trends got the most attention rather than the most sensationalist/fearful. Glad there are outlets/opportunities like this to give it the attention this important trend deserves. And the young economist at Oxford behind this data, Max Roser, is becoming somewhat of a twitter phenom himself.
