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Thank you so much Gwen. Luckily there are organizations such as Our World in Data, Gapminder, Pew research center and the World Bank, that does the real research, then proivde it for free for us to discover.

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Yes you are right and poverty is still a big problem in the world, especially in subaharan Africa. However, extreme poverty has been reduced a lot. Poverty (regular) as defined by less than $6.15 per day is still pretty high, like 50%. But first people has to move out of extreme poverty, because that kind of poverty is killing people.

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Time will tell. The new Government of National Unity has given people hope.

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I saw on the World Banks website that in 2023 India’s GDP grew by 7.6% and South Africa’s grew 0.6%. Indian real GDP growth have averaged more than 6% per year since 2006, about double as much as the average in the rest of the world. There is still a lot of poverty in India but they are growing out of it. I really hope South Africa will turn around and do better.

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Hi Thomas, this all makes sense. Certainly China has made great progress in uplifting its people. India I wasn’t sure about as I still hear of a lot of poverty there but I have never visited. My knowledge is from the news and social media. Southern Africa is going backwards.

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I can understand that. South Africa is one of the few countries in the world where extreme poverty has increased. Sub Saharan Africa in general has not been very successful in this area. However, China and also India has made great progress in this area and they are nearly half the world’s population. My father in-law went to India in the 1970’s on business trips and he was appalled by the wide spread extreme poverty that he saw. I went to India in 2014 on a business trip and I had a very different experience. I did not see much poverty and most people I met were living comfortable lives. However, I stayed in the city. I know the country side is worse off.

I mentioned Hans Rosling above, a Swedish doctor who spent most of his life trying to help people in the developing countries. He writes that he witnessed significant improvements in health and reduction in extreme poverty all around the world. That is one reason he got into examining the statistics collected by various organizations. The statistics from the various the sources told the same story. It is getting better over all, but not all places are catching up.

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