globalization, pre-globalization & poverty reduction

[Patrick Bond]

> Date:          Thu, 8 Feb 2001 15:23:18 -0500 (EST)
> From:          Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> The international effort to address extreme povery has lost momentum over
> the past decade, according to the Ifad's Rural Poverty Report.  The slow
> progress over the past 10 years follows a 20-year period between 1970 and
> 1990 that saw the fastest and most widespread retreat of poverty, hunger,
> premature death and illiteracy in history.

Which continent is that? Certainly not Africa and Latin America from 
the early 1980s...