The methodology is pretty bad: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding-up-the-wealth-of-the-poor/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/201

The methodology is pretty bad: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding-up-the-wealth-of-the-poor/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding.... It implies, for example, that China has zero people who are extremely poor (bottom decile), while more of the very poor live in the United States than anywhere else but India. This is just Facebook fodder.