> In fact Africa Has actually regressed in poverty lebels since the 1970's. While you may be right about your particular area, you're not correct about Africa

> In fact Africa Has actually regressed in poverty lebels since the 1970's. While you may be right about your particular area, you're not correct about Africa as a whole, nor about sub-Saharan Africa collectively. For the past decade, economic growth in Africa has been higher than in East Asia. In sub-Saharan Africa, incomes are up by two thirds since 1998. Since 1960, life expectancy for women in sub-Saharan Africa is up from 41 to 57 years, and the fraction of children attending school is up from low 40s percent to over 75%. Almost any poverty indicator you care to measure shows improvement. This is not to say that the problem of poverty is solved -- far from it. But the problem is steadily getting smaller, not bigger.