Bono rocks! (U2 frontman talks about 50% decline in global poverty @ TED)
by Fernando 5 Replies latest social current
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88JM
Wasn't that 50% reduction all B.S. because they changed the poverty line from a dollar a day to $1.25 a day? (I didn't watch the video yet) -
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Bono, the rock god worth ~£100 million, lectures us about poverty
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rebel8
Wasn't that 50% reduction all B.S. because they changed the poverty line from a dollar a day to $1.25 a day?
Wouldn't that increase who is considered poor, if the income threshold was raised?
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88JM
Apologies, I got my stories mixed up.
I was actually thinking of this news story - they have a corrections section at the top explaining what was wrong with the original assertion:
http://www.cgdev.org/blog/global-absolute-poverty-fell-almost-half-tuesday
Was discussed on the BBC's More Or Less:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/moreorless_20140519-1200a.mp3
