Re:Yemen has lost internet after Saudi-led airstrikes
by manuelabeledo on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:42PM
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> what do you suggest happened 30-40 years ago that triggered this massive spread of wealth, then?
It doesn't really matter what I suggest. Correlation does not imply causation.
But for instance, in China there were 700 million of people living in extreme poverty in 1990, and that number went down to 200 million in 2008, and 7 million in 2016 [1]. Regardless, internet penetration rate in China was 23% in 2008, and 53% in 2016 [2].
From the article in [1], it is easy to deduce that most advancements in extreme poverty eradication come from similar contexts, countries with larger populations that have experienced accelerated growth in the past decades, mostly because of manufacture and exports, e.g. India, Vietnam, or Brazil.
It doesn't really matter what I suggest. Correlation does not imply causation.
But for instance, in China there were 700 million of people living in extreme poverty in 1990, and that number went down to 200 million in 2008, and 7 million in 2016 [1]. Regardless, internet penetration rate in China was 23% in 2008, and 53% in 2016 [2].
From the article in [1], it is easy to deduce that most advancements in extreme poverty eradication come from similar contexts, countries with larger populations that have experienced accelerated growth in the past decades, mostly because of manufacture and exports, e.g. India, Vietnam, or Brazil.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/56213271
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/236963/penetration-rate-...