Poverty is spreading. There are now as many people living in absolute poverty--almost a billion in the rural Third World alone--as lived on the entire planet only a century ago. Yet poverty continues to be shrouded in mystery.
Consider that: Four-fifths of the world's poor live in rural areas; About 340 million people worldwide are currently chronically ill from malnutrition; Over 500 million do not get enough calories to do a full day's labor; At a time when enough grain is being produced to provide everyone in the world with twice the daily minimum caloric requirements, global...
Poverty is spreading. There are now as many people living in absolute poverty--almost a billion in the rural Third World alone--as lived on the ent...