In 1981 42 per cent of the world lived in extreme poverty earning less than $700 USD per year. Today that number is less than 10 per cent.
Economists studying this decline have discovered that open borders immigration and wealth redistribution has not been the solution, but rather the classical conservative solution of small government: reducing the regulation burden.
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