100,000,000 workers grind India to a halt in one of world's biggest strikes ever

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23. If wages rise in India and China (combined 2.4 billion people) some jobs might go

to other, smaller Asian countries or to Africa. China and India together represent about 30% of global population (7 billion).

Of course, if significant numbers of jobs move from huge to smaller Asian countries, wages will rise in them, too, much faster than it took to raise wage levels in the huge countries themselves.

Even if many of these jobs move to Africa, it's population - 1.02 billion - is less than that of either China (1.34 billion) or India (1.17 billion).

Some 1.29 billion people, or 22% of the developing world's population, were poor in 2008, down from 1.94 billion people (43%) in 1981.

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