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> if you're not sure where your next meal comes from? This is certainly work in progress, but: "31. In 1990, more than 60% of people in East Asia lived in ext
by avz 10y ago
> if you're not sure where your next meal comes from?
This is certainly work in progress, but:
"31. In 1990, more than 60% of people in East Asia lived in extreme poverty. As of 2016, that proportion has dropped to 3.5%."
- contingencies 10y agoI'm calling BS. East Asia basically just means China, because it dwarfs other populations. IMHO >60% of Chinese were certainly not living in extreme poverty in 1990, unless economically defined via free market rhetoric and bad statistics. The reality is that people used to grow more of their own food and buy less, so the need for free-market capital was limited. Perhaps this is the source of the mistake. There was and still is far more extreme poverty in South Asia.
- noobermin 10y agoThis actually sounds interesting as a fact but I would like to see some evidence/links.
- contingencies 10y agoJust look for photos of any place in China in the 1990s, or ask someone who lived there.
- dredmorbius 10y agoPretty much exactly this. Global reductions in poverty equate to reductions in $2/day income threshold in two countries: China and India. http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/china-india-played-central-role-in-global-poverty-reduction-un-115070700355_1.html http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/china-i... Accomplished at the cost of tremendously increasing resource consumption, particularly energy: China: https://m.imgur.com/Vj5VwS9?r https://m.imgur.com/Vj5VwS9?r India: https://m.imgur.com/elFJjGP?r https://m.imgur.com/elFJjGP?r
- MarkMc 10y agoSo in your opinion what percentage of Chinese were living in extreme poverty in 1990?