globalization, pre-globalization & poverty reduction

[Brad DeLong]

>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.

Nearly three billion people live there, after all...