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http://www.cnbc.com/id/101351736The 25-page report, written by Gates and his wife Melinda, who are co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, argued that the world is a better place than it has even been before.
Gates predicted that by 2035, there would be almost no poor countries left in the world, using today's World Bank classification of low-income countries even after adjusting for inflation.
"Poor countries are not doomed to stay poor. Some of the so-called developing nations have already developed," he said in a his annual note, published on Tuesday.
I think you're dreaming, Bill.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)no countries, rich or poor, because they will have been declared obsolete by the global corporations.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Thought that title belonged to Welch, he even bragged about it, but I wouldn't argue the challenge. As Clapton said, you take Sally, I'll take Sue, Ain't no difference between the two.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)by then
When I was a child, "poor" meant something different from what we now accept as poor.,
In Kansas, in the 60's, poor meant a crappy small rented house./apt, no tv, no phone, no car (or a very crappy car)...Just the basics.. Mom made your clothes, cut your hair,...toys were second-hand..you took your lunch to school..no vacations..
"Poor" back then could be "cured" by getting a good job or finding someone to share expenses.... No one was in debt because most "Poor" people could not get credit.
These days, poor is totally different.
pampango
(24,692 posts)It seems to me that it is the conservative folks with their "the poor will always be with us so why should be sacrifice anything to help them" mantra that stands in the way. Liberals don't usually look at abject poverty and say "I wish we could deal with it, but it cannot be done."
Johonny
(20,841 posts)all countries will be modeled after the third world where the wealth is stored up in a few people like him. Relatively there will be no poor countries but plenty of poor people.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)As we all know, rich countries are perfectly capable of maintaining large populations of poor people.