A lot of people seems to be skeptical about this. There is a wonderful book called Factfullness which is written exactly for this kind of audience. In his book, Rosling suggests the vast majority of human beings are wrong about the state of the world. He believes his test subjects think the world is poorer, less healthy, and more dangerous than it is. Bill gates sponsored this book for all the students graduating from college and I can exactly see why by going through this thread.
That article should come out of Delhi or Beijing, not Washington. Thanks to the western world, for stopping their evil doing in Asia (excluding Near East). When US/France/UK get their ass out of Africa and Middle East, expect further decline of global poverty. <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-brought-271-million-out-of-poverty-between-2005-16-similar-to-china-undp-oxford-report-5368980/" rel="nofollow">https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-brought-271-mi...</a> Expecting a lot of downvotes in the HN crowd.
Does anyone know exactly why? I conjecture to say it's broadly the result of capitalism. I really feel like it's a shame that word is almost toxic in intellectual circles.
<a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/09/19/decline-of-global-extreme-poverty-continues-but-has-slowed-world-bank" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/09/19/d...</a><p>Non pay wall link with the same info