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Fantastic results! Check out how GDP per capita is trending in those areas. It has doubled in Palestine and Haiti over the last couple of decades, and is way up

Fantastic results! Check out how GDP per capita is trending in those areas. It has doubled in Palestine and Haiti over the last couple of decades, and is way up for many sub-Saharan African countries. Funny that you'd pick those areas and not Asia, where a billion people were lifted out of absolute poverty in the last 30 years! Pure chance, I'm sure.

27fingies 3y ago
might be worth looking at the 200 years before that
shkkmo 3y ago
> It has doubled in Palestine and Haiti over the last couple of decades, and is way up for many sub-Saharan African countries. https://tradingeconomics.com/haiti/gdp-per-capita https://tradingeconomics.com/haiti/gdp-per-capita The actual facts don't match your rosey summary. Haiti has faced 4 straight years of a shrinking economy and the GDP per capita is at one of it's lowest points in the last 60 years. Yes, many people have been lifted out of poverty but it has happened alongside increasing inequality and there have been some very notable failures and Haiti is one of them.
- marcusverus 3y ago
  Wrong. World bank data shows Haiti's GDP per capita has more than doubled since 2000. [0] You anti-capitalists have already caused a century of misery and wont--can't you just admit defeat? Haiti is the perfect example of the extraordinary benefits of our system. 40% can't read. 60% lack access to electricity. Yet even they can't escape the bounty of global capitalist system! It's over. Capitalism won, for the benefit of all of humanity. [0] https://data.worldbank.org/country/haiti https://data.worldbank.org/country/haiti
  - shkkmo 3y ago
    It's funny how if you ignore inflation, it looks like things are growing. Try looking at the inflation adjusted 2015 graph. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?locations=HT https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?location...

27fingies 3y ago

might be worth looking at the 200 years before that

shkkmo 3y ago

> It has doubled in Palestine and Haiti over the last couple of decades, and is way up for many sub-Saharan African countries. https://tradingeconomics.com/haiti/gdp-per-capita https://tradingeconomics.com/haiti/gdp-per-capita The actual facts don't match your rosey summary. Haiti has faced 4 straight years of a shrinking economy and the GDP per capita is at one of it's lowest points in the last 60 years. Yes, many people have been lifted out of poverty but it has happened alongside increasing inequality and there have been some very notable failures and Haiti is one of them.

marcusverus 3y ago
Wrong. World bank data shows Haiti's GDP per capita has more than doubled since 2000. [0] You anti-capitalists have already caused a century of misery and wont--can't you just admit defeat? Haiti is the perfect example of the extraordinary benefits of our system. 40% can't read. 60% lack access to electricity. Yet even they can't escape the bounty of global capitalist system! It's over. Capitalism won, for the benefit of all of humanity. [0] https://data.worldbank.org/country/haiti https://data.worldbank.org/country/haiti
- shkkmo 3y ago
  It's funny how if you ignore inflation, it looks like things are growing. Try looking at the inflation adjusted 2015 graph. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?locations=HT https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?location...