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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by m_mueller on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:40AM (#18037606)
IMO that only works when it's coupled with progress in governance. Compare Venezuela to India over the last 30 years, and extrapolate into the near future what will happen there.

Edit: Just to anticipate the obligatory "Venezuala communist -> bad outcome" comment: Yes, but why are they communist?

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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by thecopy on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:47AM (#18037637)
>Compare Venezuela to India over the last 30 years, and extrapolate into the near future what will happen there.

Compare how? What do you mean will happen?

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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by JumpCrisscross on Friday September 21, 2018 @04:23AM (#18038064)
> What do you mean will happen?

Even in its deepest crises, India's army did not play kingmaker. Furthermore, India's federated structure–while annoying to reformers–checks the power of aspiring dictators. Every uneducated population, it seems, elects populists from time to time. The damage they can do in India appears to be more limited than the damage done to Venezuela by Chavez and Maduro. Venezuela will probably be an impoverished nation for decades; India has a chance of becoming a middle-income or even developed country by 2050.

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Re:Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed by m_mueller on Friday September 21, 2018 @04:27AM (#18038073)
I recommend to look at the following:

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$time$value=2018;&mar...

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