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S7 Ep29: What the $1-a-day global poverty line gets wrong
It's 1990. A young staff economist walks into a director's office at the World Bank and says the number he's about to publish is "crazy". The director tells him not to worry about it. The number was the dollar-a-day pove...
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S7 Ep29: What the $1-a-day global poverty line gets wrong is an episode from VoxDev Talks by Audioboom. It's 1990. A young staff economist walks into a director's office at the World Bank and says the number he's about to publish is "crazy"...
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Published Jun 3, 2026, 29:13 long, audio available.
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