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Re:Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity by dredmorbius on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:58PM (#13266552)
Pretty much exactly this. Global reductions in poverty equate to reductions in $2/day income threshold in two countries: China and India.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/china-i...

Accomplished at the cost of tremendously increasing resource consumption, particularly energy:

China: https://m.imgur.com/Vj5VwS9?r

India: https://m.imgur.com/elFJjGP?r

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