It's almost redundant to say that the world is changing fast, but it's not always changing in clear-cut ways. For example, in the world of commerce, while global market capitalization has skyrocketed, international trade in goods has flattened, and cross-border capital flows have declined sharply since 2008. And though real wages have stagnated in many developed economies, what most of us don't know is that the number of people living in extreme poverty has dropped to its lowest ever, falling by over a quarter billion in just the past ten years alone.
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