Tomorrow is the 'International Day for the Eradication of Poverty’ Here is our entry on global extreme poverty:https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty/ …
Newspapers could have had the headline “Number of people in extreme poverty fell by 137,000 since yesterday” Every day in the last 25 years.pic.twitter.com/oKxco1oVHL
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$1.90 is a very low (‘extreme’) poverty line. So it is important to see changes relative to higher poverty lineshttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-in-non-rich-countries-by-per-capita-household-income?stackMode=relative …
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Bankers use this a lot... yes the crash caused a global depression but in comparison to.... all relative..
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I would reply to your point, but am unfortunately unable to make head or tail of it. I do apologise.
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Ha ha, brilliant. Only dropping by to see if you're as arrogant and stupid as before. Your reply matches it perfectly.
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I’m sorry you feel like that. My response was genuine and I am chagrined it prompted you to be rude. I realise that it is difficult for us all to be as self effacing and clever as you, but we struggle to do our best.
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Even better! thank you. As expected as you may have noted from the timing of my other post re The Times. Many thanks.
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I hope I can make my point now about the graph a bit better. I couldn’t answer your tweet because the graph isn’t really about depressions or the banking crisis. It’s about extreme poverty and the progress being made.
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So I seriously meant I couldn’t follow. It wasn’t an attempt to be cheap. It was a request to elaborate.
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Plot the people in misery, not some financial measure.
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Impossible to accurately calculate a measure of an emotion
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And climate change will continue this success story for many decades to come.
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More people die then are lifted out of "extreme poverty" every day, according to these stats:pic.twitter.com/vnUYsjEkC0
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What happened to reverse the trend in about 1965?
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Economic growth and globalization
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Bloody 'neoliberalism'.
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Looks good, but an increasing share of people live in urban areas where $1.90 hardly allows a decent life. How does the $5/day data look?
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What % of people over the last 25 years and yesterday in particular, are located in China? Has the geography shifted overtime?
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So often the stats used by the Right in the face of increased inequality, hardship, austerity, uber capitalism, the rise of the Far Right
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