This week’s covers

THIS WEEK WE had two covers. In the , the Middle East and Africa we looked at how the world’s poor stopped catching up. During the two decades after around 1995 gaps in narrowed, extreme poverty plummeted and global public health and education improved vastly. With a big fall in malaria deaths and infant mortality and a rise in school enrolment. But extreme poverty has barely fallen since 2015. Measures of global public health improved only slowly in the late 2010s, and then went into decline after the pandemic. Malaria...