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JCMach1

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26. I really don't buy the study... I am not an economist, but
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 04:42 AM
Mar 2013

it would be good to see a critique of the methodology used.

Damn shame Detroit didn't make the list. Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #1
The 1% is now terrified. backscatter712 Mar 2013 #2
Don't worry primavera Mar 2013 #13
I'd love to see Phlem Mar 2013 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Rhiannon12866 Mar 2013 #4
a rising tide lifts all boats... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #5
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
Del Monte has guard posts equipped with rifles JCMach1 Mar 2013 #17
All quite true. That over a billion are still poor pampango Mar 2013 #20
I really don't buy the study... I am not an economist, but JCMach1 Mar 2013 #26
Agree with respect to the methodology of the Oxford and UN studies. They may be flawed. pampango Mar 2013 #27
Yay, Thomas Friedman was right... Alkene Mar 2013 #8
I know many on this board hate this word but globalization is main reason for this. DCBob Mar 2013 #9
Good. Now to sustain this.... mpcamb Mar 2013 #10
Its the rapidly falling birth rates. Exultant Democracy Mar 2013 #11
Whole lot of people actually upset over this. Ugh. (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2013 #12
My first reaction is that this is bullshit lunatica Mar 2013 #14
+1 tawadi Mar 2013 #15
Record numbers of the middle class worldwide are being reduced to poverty levels... Earth_First Mar 2013 #16
a lot of it has been offloaded to the US Doctor_J Mar 2013 #18
"Dark Africa" has come for our jobs, eh? pampango Mar 2013 #21
So the fact that our shoes are now made by workers Doctor_J Mar 2013 #22
We don't have to wall of the world's poor in order to have a strong middle class. pampango Mar 2013 #24
That was insightful...eom Kolesar Mar 2013 #29
Jeb Bush will see to the demise of that!!! nightscanner59 Mar 2013 #19
There is no reason for progressives to feel threatened by the possibility that the world is making Douglas Carpenter Mar 2013 #23
Just wait until the Friedman's Chicago boys get ahold of these nations. Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #25
The more the standard of living increases madville Mar 2013 #28
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