KhizooologyThe Great Escape
Progress can save lives while widening gaps.
Big Idea
Deaton traces improvements in health and material life while asking why their benefits reach some people much earlier than others.
Escaping Early Death
Public health and medical advances helped many people live longer than earlier generations.
More Than Income
A fuller account of wellbeing must consider health as well as money.
Uneven Arrivals
Innovations can create gaps when only some people initially benefit.
Setbacks Are Real
Disease, political failures and unequal opportunities can interrupt a story of overall progress.
Helping Without Undermining
Deaton questions whether some aid arrangements weaken the institutions they are meant to support.
An Argument to Examine
His critique of aid is debated; describing it is not a claim that every kind of assistance is harmful or that inequality has one cause.
Khizooo Take
Ask who benefits from an improvement, who remains excluded and what would help the benefits travel further.
Remember
Progress is not complete while access remains unequal.