China’s Economy to Reap Benefits That Once Flowed to U.S

Re:China’s Economy to Reap Benefits That Once Flowed to U.S by ManuelKiessling on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:46PM (#18753578)

“The world’s poor people have benefitted enormously as evidenced by a large increase in life expectancy in developing countries, a 60% decline in child mortality in less than four decades, a doubling of grain yields in developing countries after the mid-1960s and a large increase in per capita caloric food supply.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104900780...

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Re:China’s Economy to Reap Benefits That Once Flowed to U.S by optimuspaul on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:49PM (#18753596)

Not sure living longer is a benefit if the life the live is a life of poverty.

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Re:China’s Economy to Reap Benefits That Once Flowed to U.S by dlp211 on Monday December 24, 2018 @02:07PM (#18753695)

Then it's a good thing that globalization has lifted the vast majority of people out of abject poverty and most of the world is considered to be middle income now. Source: Factfullness

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