Tag: extreme poverty
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World Bank: Extreme poverty ‘to fall below 10%’
BBC: World Bank: Extreme poverty 'to fall below 10%' The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty,…
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Trends in Extreme Poverty (Spoiler: The Poor Are Not Getting Poorer)
Globally, the number of people living in extreme poverty ($1.25 a day) is shrinking. The global poor are not getting poorer. The world population grew from 4.5 billion people in 1981 to 6.9 billion in 2010 – a 60% increase. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty in developing nations dropped from over 50%…
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Why I Won’t Shut Up About Positive Changes in The World
Most people are exceptionally illiterate about the trajectory of demographic and economic changes in the world, believing the world is decaying. That leads many to disengage in hopelessness. Globalization combined with investment in human capital and infrastructure has put extreme poverty in rapid retreat. The global poor are not getting poorer. The world is getting…
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Economic Development Links
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in Africa, Capitalism and Markets, Central America, China, Demography, Economic Development, Education, Environment, Gender and Sex, Globalization, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, International Affairs, Links – Economic Development, Poverty, Technology (Food & Water), Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution1. Economist: March of the Middle Class 2. Chrsitianity Today: Poverty Is a Moral Problem – Interview with William Easterly … The sad thing is that the field and practice of development have too often been on the wrong side of this debate. They’ve implicitly painted themselves into a corner where they’re on the authoritarian…
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Global Poverty Is on the Decline, But Almost No One Believes It
Barna: Global Poverty Is on the Decline, But Almost No One Believes It April 29, 2014—Did you know that, in the past 30 years, the percentage of people in the world who live in extreme poverty has decreased by more than half? If you said no—if you thought the number had gone up; that more…
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Economic Boom in Africa – Philip Jenkins
Christian Century: Economic Boom in Africa – Philip Jenkins When I lecture on global Christianity, I am sometimes asked whether, in retrospect, I would revise what I wrote many years ago in books like The Next Christendom. Usually my answer is no. But in one critical area conditions are changing so quickly as to demand…