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pickles55 t1_iu6spjq wrote

Are they using the time tested IMF method of reducing poverty? By that I mean changing the definition of poverty so it fits less people without material change

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currentscurrents t1_iu7flju wrote

This isn't true though, poverty has decreased a lot especially in Asia.

China used international trade to turn a billion-person impoverished country into the 2nd largest economy in the world. This was a major advancement for hundreds of millions of the world's poorest.

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