INTS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Millennium Development Goals, Extreme Poverty, Developing Country
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Elaborate your answers by drawing on the materials from the lecture and reading. Despite global momentum toward seeing an end of poverty, whether this objective is achievable through current efforts is unlikely. Developing nations with large populations, such as india and china, are growing economically at an exponential rate. Economies such as these are mainly responsible for the recent decrease in extreme poverty, as they improve the living standards of its citizens. In the age of information, this power to share knowledge encourages equality. Parallel to this phenomenon is the reality that the pursuit of equality is being speed up as individual"s apathy is challenged. In the last twenty years from 1990 to 2010, the number of people living in extreme poverty has declined from 43% to 21%. The capitalist system positions the wealthy to get wealthier and the poor to get more impoverished.
