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>The past few decades of globalization have resulted in the greatest destruction of poverty in history.

At the same time there are still more poor people than ever before in history, ~3 billion, so what is the net? 50 years ago there was only ~3 billion people on the planet.

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There's no doubt that population growth is one of the defining features of the world economy. But improving average wealth and education inevitably lowers population growth. Population growth must slow to allow further advances in poverty reduction, but I think everyone understands that population growth will slow one way or another. The question is whether it will happen through economic growth or through the four horsemen.

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