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BTW, Japan Post has been doing all this for decades, but since the Government still can't balance their budget and has debts of over 200% of GDP, they are selling (partially) the post off into 3 companies, Post, Insurance and banking. http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/03/investing/japan-post-ipo/index.html http://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-post-ipo-to-shift-focus-to-property-portfolio-1446577643
Bump. Article about the progress of reducing world poverty. A lot of dis agreement on the data, but a few thing that pro capitalism and anti capitalist agree on. “The $1.90/day (2011 PPP) line is not an adequate or in any way satisfactory level of consumption; it is explicitly an extreme measure. Some analysts suggest that around $7.40/day is the minimum necessary to achieve good nutrition and normal life expectancy, while others propose we use the US poverty line, which is $15.” “The proportion of people living under $1.90 per day has declined significantly, but poverty as measured by $7.40/day has declined more slowly, from 70.8 percent in 1981 to 58.1 percent in 2013.” “The average consumption of people below both the $1.90 and $7.40 poverty lines and above those lines has increased. The ‘poverty gap’ (the average distance below the poverty line) has been shrinking.” “Income and consumption does not tell us the whole story about poverty. Poverty is multi-dimensional, and some aspects of human well-being can be obscured by consumption figures.” “The present rate of poverty reduction is too slow for us to end $1.90/day poverty by 2030, or $7.40/day poverty in our lifetimes. To achieve this goal, we would need to change economic policy to make it fairer for the world’s majority.” https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18215534/bill-gates-global-poverty-chart
the article tries to argue that the date is used by people with agendas, pro capitalist agenda or pro marxist agenda
We still lag behind other developed countries, but at least before this year, things were going in the right direction (too slowly for sure) Surprisingly, child poverty is a bigger problem in the USA than in most other high-income nations. But it’s falling. https://t.co/gUGEgO8sk7 #bnews pic.twitter.com/Hsf4ZuvWVR— Beautiful News Daily (@beautiful__news) July 20, 2020