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mindmetoo
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 Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject: Half a billion less people living in poverty |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080826/wl_nm/worldbank_poverty_dc_2
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The poverty-fighting institution said there were 1.4 billion people -- a quarter of the developing world -- living in extreme poverty on less than $1.25 a day in 2005 in the world's 10 to 20 poorest countries.
In 1981, 1.9 billion people were living below the new $1.25 a day poverty line.
The World Bank data shows that the number of people living below the $1.25 a day poverty line fell over nearly 25 years to 26 percent in 2005 from 52 percent in 1981, a decline on average of about 1 percent a year, he said. |
Those numbers look even better when you consider how much the world has grown in population since 1981. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject: Re: Half a billion less people living in poverty |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Those numbers look even better when you consider how much the world has grown in population since 1981. |
This is obviously great news. Hopefully as more people rise out of extreme poverty they will also choose to stop pushing out puppies at an absurd rate. |
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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You gotta rid of the Catholic Church first.
You wonder if someone making $1.00 per day gives 10 percent of that to the Church? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| Globalization at work. The rich get richer, the poor get poor. That doesn't change. What does change is there are less people that are poor. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| Globalization at work. The rich get richer, the poor get poor. That doesn't change. What does change is there are less people that are poor. |
Err. There are more people today but less poor people, both as a ratio and in absolute terms. It would seem to me people are moving out of poverty. The poor aren't getting poorer. And if the rich get richer, who cares, as long as the pie gets bigger?
You see stats like 30% of people earn 10% of the world's income, down from 12%. That seems pretty bad. Since the % decreases they must be getting less! But the unstated major premise is the % of x has remained constant.
But look at it this way would you want:
a) 50% of a million dollars?
c) 10% of 100 billion dollars?
If my slice of the pizza is bigger today than it's every been before, why do I care about who is getting how much of the rest of it? |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| Paddycakes wrote: |
You gotta rid of the Catholic Church first.
You wonder if someone making $1.00 per day gives 10 percent of that to the Church? |
What does this have to do with anything? Tithing as the cause of poverty? Seriously?
Pkang,
The wealthy become more wealthy and the poor become less poor. Both have been gaining. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| That's half a billion fewer. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| Paddycakes wrote: |
You gotta rid of the Catholic Church first.
You wonder if someone making $1.00 per day gives 10 percent of that to the Church? |
What does this have to do with anything? Tithing as the cause of poverty? Seriously?
Pkang,
The wealthy become more wealthy and the poor become less poor. Both have been gaining. |
I think they were referencing the Catholic stance on aggressive breeding. More souls for the faith. Thing is the CC is losing ground internationally. It's not really a factor to continued breeding rates. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Leslie Cheswyck wrote: |
| That's half a billion fewer. |
You're right. Less with non countable. Fewer with countable.
Less water.
Fewer gold medals. |
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