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Development economics

  • PovertyThe word poverty comes from the old Norman French term poverté, which traces back to the Latin paupertas and the root pauper.
  • Our World in DataMax Roser launched Our World in Data in 2011 as a social historian and development economist. He began by visualizing global data on poverty, disease, and…
  • Human Development IndexPakistani economist Mahbub ul-Haq launched the Human Development Index in 1990 through the United Nations Development Programme.
  • United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairsThe United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs traces its modern form to a 1997 merger. Three distinct departments combined forces that year.