Vinny Armentano

Finally got around to reading it. What an awesome paper (and example of how careful descriptive stats can be enlightening)!

“The share of the global population living in extreme poverty fell dramatically from an estimated 44% in 1981 to 9% in 2019” 📉 Mostly over lifetimes, not over generations

Nice descriptives in "How Poverty Fell" -
@vinnyarmentano.bsky.social Niehaus & Vogl

📄: econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/pa...
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Apologies, the PDF filename changed and I didn't foresee it breaking the URL. Would love to hear what you think of the piece
vincentarmentano.com/research/hpf...

India has undermined a popular myth about development Extreme poverty in the country has dropped to negligible levels

#India has undermined a popular myth about #Development: economist.com/finance-and-... #Geography

Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs.

DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.

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How Poverty Fell -- teaching materials -- v20250106 How did poverty fall? v20250106. Based on Armentano, Niehaus & Vogl, 2025. “How Poverty Fell.” Provide some appropriate remarks contextualizing the upcoming content relative to the other material you ...

We want to simplify sharing this content as well. To make things easy, we’ve created a set of slides you can use in your development or economics course

Happy to receive feedback if there's something you think could improve/enhance these materials.

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How did such a large share of the world’s population escape extreme poverty? Paul Niehaus, Tom Vogl and I were curious and are excited to share with you what we've found.

vincentarmentano.com/research/hpf...