That is now a given, baby, in spite of Bill Gates' best efforts.... Terms search: defecate open,
Here's another fun fact I have referred to before re global income convergence and how much Western liberals and their economists long for this sublime global equalitarian state.
Martin Meredith notes, as I have noted, that half of Africa's 800 million (an understated number, I believe), live on less than $1 a day. A day! Wade, p. 175.
The interesting question, then, is, How much less? 50 cents, 25 cents, 10 cents, a nickel?
Let's look at his other phrase, the other half live on a $1 or more.
Does that mean that almost all the other half billion, except the top .0001 percent, mostly live on, say, a dollar to a dollar ten cents a day? $1.20? $1.04?
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