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This isn’t primarily the US, this is global extreme poverty, and right now for example, it’s bad in Southern Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, among one or two othe
by dahart 2y ago
This isn’t primarily the US, this is global extreme poverty, and right now for example, it’s bad in Southern Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, among one or two other places the UN & World Bank talk about.
> w/o also numbers on what it cost to live per day.
This is what “PPP” is all about, that’s referring to a normalized purchasing power parity that is specifically designed to help you understand what $7/day actually means: it means what you think it does, and it is supposed to compare directly to the amount of money it costs you to feed yourself every day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity