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“The world’s poor people have benefitted enormously as evidenced by a large increase in life expectancy in developing countries, a 60% decline in child mortalit
by ManuelKiessling 8y ago
“The world’s poor people have benefitted enormously as evidenced by a large increase in life expectancy in developing countries, a 60% decline in child mortality in less than four decades, a doubling of grain yields in developing countries after the mid-1960s and a large increase in per capita caloric food supply.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049007802001628 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104900780...
- optimuspaul 8y agoNot sure living longer is a benefit if the life the live is a life of poverty.
- dlp211 8y agoThen it's a good thing that globalization has lifted the vast majority of people out of abject poverty and most of the world is considered to be middle income now. Source: Factfullness