Economic development is doing OK - by Noah Smith

Poor countries aren't catching up as fast as we'd like, but they're catching up faster than before.

I recently did a series of posts highlighting the successful industrialization and rapid economic growth of countries like India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Poland, and the Dominican Republic. And I didn’t even include China, which is the most amazing of the recent development success stories. So I was a little surprised to read David Oks and Henry Williams write an article called “The Long, Slow Death of Global Development”, and I was even more surprised to see my favorite podcast, Odd Lots, embracing this thesis rather uncritically. It seems extremely clear to me, witnessing…

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