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In reply to the discussion: World poverty is shrinking rapidly, new index reveals [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)7. "The study found that in 2013 a total of 1.6 billion people are living in "multidimensional" poverty
Neither the article's author nor the study itself claim that global poverty has disappeared, just that " s)ome of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor."
The Guardian article references an Oxford University study which itself confirms a UN report published last week that found "poverty reduction drives in the developing world were exceeding all expectations."
I was in Manila a couple of months ago and I agree with you that examples of extreme poverty everywhere in the world are still all too common. I accept, however, that progress is being made, but with "1.6 billion people are living in "multidimensional" poverty" very much still needs to be done.
The brighter global picture is the result of international and national aid and development projects investing in schools, health clinics, housing, infrastructure and improved access to water. The UN also pointed to trade as being a key factor which was improving conditions in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
Let us hope that this welcome sign of progress is not derailed by who want to curtail those "international and national aid and development projects investing in schools, health clinics, housing, infrastructure and improved access to water." Foreign aid is one of the big budget targets of many on the Ryan's budget and a favorite target of the libertarian/fundamentalist republican base.
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Nepal... really...? I suppose I imagined Dalit women breaking gravel with hammers
JCMach1
Mar 2013
#6
"The study found that in 2013 a total of 1.6 billion people are living in "multidimensional" poverty
pampango
Mar 2013
#7
Agree with respect to the methodology of the Oxford and UN studies. They may be flawed.
pampango
Mar 2013
#27
I know many on this board hate this word but globalization is main reason for this.
DCBob
Mar 2013
#9
Record numbers of the middle class worldwide are being reduced to poverty levels...
Earth_First
Mar 2013
#16
We don't have to wall of the world's poor in order to have a strong middle class.
pampango
Mar 2013
#24
There is no reason for progressives to feel threatened by the possibility that the world is making
Douglas Carpenter
Mar 2013
#23