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The 2023 Global Multidimensional Poverty report is now available and it shows significant and continuous progress in decreasing (extreme) poverty all around the world. The graphic shows the improvement over the last 40 years and the decrease in poverty is really impressive. The 2023 report points out that in the …

Today is a festivity in several Countries, I am on vacation and I want to share with you a funny poster I noticed yesterday at the bus stop, here in Menton, France. As you can see in the pictures I took with my smartphone a rooster is screaming: can you …

How many people will populate the world in 2100? I won’t be there, so count me out. The estimates differ significantly. According to the United Nations, UN, there will be 10.3 billion, that is 2 extra billion with respect to current world population (check the world population clock for up …

This is not a recent story, but I just stumbled onto it and it made a strong impression, so I like to share it. It is a story published on The Economist about a young Afghan woman that under the Taliban regime was forced, as millions of other women in …

Just as the pandemic hit I was in Laos, touring the countryside and enjoying the architecture of the many temples and the calm life organised around centuries old tradition. I should  say, and that I still remember it is proof of the impact it had, seeing a QR code con …

Who doesn’t know the discussion about who came first, the chicken or the egg. It seems even Aristotle looked at the problem (his solution, by the way, was wrong…). Nowadays evolution biology has a clear and scientifically sound answer: the egg came first (the Bible opted for the chicken…). Having …

In yesterday  post I discussed the long term scenario of investment to reach, or at least aim at a net-zero carbon economy. The foreseen investment is huge, who is going to reap the (economic) benefits? Here the horizon is at the 2030, end of this decade. The graphic shows 11 …

Browising on the web I run into the graphic shown in the image, representing the amount of carbon dioxide that a single person can shave off emission by a specific action. My eye, and yours I bet, has been attracted by the huge circle representing the amount of carbon emission …

I recently read a book, “The Silk Roads” (yes, in the plural) by Peter Frankopan. I found it really interesting since it looks at the history of the world, from the very beginning of historical records, from the point of view of economics, showing how economic forces have steered politics, …

Technology no longer lives in its own “space” as it used to be in the last century. Today its evolution is steered by economics, society and the general perception of what should be done, what the priorities are. The reason is simple: in the past technology was scarce and whatever …