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Measuring the world’s poor who 'live below the poverty line' : Comments
By Ben Coleridge, published 27/5/2011How measurements of the world’s poor as income deprived fails to miss the cultural, social and political realities of who gets to eat and who doesn’t.
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Poverty is not the problem in itself; in our global yet still "contained" economy, poverty is the by-product of wealth--its complement and and how it's maintained. The only way to address extreme poverty is to address extreme wealth; in fact to address the insane logic of converting surpluses from sustenance into profit--thus driving both the disparity and its ongoing propagation.