On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Patrick Bond wrote:
> > 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...
Asia. Probably advance there statistically outweighed stagnation or retreat elsewhere. (70's up, 80s down might be a statistical wash. Also "best in history" isn't raising the bar that high.) According to their figures, of the 1.2 billion currently in extreme (less than dollar a day) poverty, 44 per cent live in South Asia, 24 per cent in East Asia, 24 in sub-saharan Africa and 6.5% in Latin America and the Carribbean.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com