Are we better off than we think?

https://www.youtube.com/v/0fSiiAunc2A?fs=1&hl=fr_FR

“Despite global inequalities, most of the world is better off than you think – and better off than it has ever been before. Watch Hans Rosling explain why.”

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I am a geography professor at Rhode Island College.

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