... , the empirical record on the alleviation of human suffering in the late twentieth century, notwithstanding remaining human hardship, was according to Harvard economist Richard Cooper, 'unambiguously positive'. Things may be worse in Africa he argued, but due to improvements in China and India, '...the fraction of the world's population living in poverty has gone way down.' 10 So, with such a track record ... more active policies of the types enshrined in the Asian developmental state' model and advocated in Latin America by a growing number of governmental, societal and media voices. In...

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