“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics, whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were and ask, why not?” -John F. Kennedy
In this article states that the amount of people in extreme poverty is decreasing, however slowly, throughout the world. Also, this decrease is directly related to the growth in a third-world country's infrastructure. I found it interesting that Sachs' found a correlation between the introduction of cell phones to African society and the decline of poverty in small villages.
Also a fact in the article that appalled me was that some people in extreme poverty make as little as $1.25 a day per person(in international currency). It makes me feel grateful that in America we have a high minimum wage rate, and systems in place to help citizens in poverty(even though some people take advantage of this system, but that is a different discussion).
The author of this article seems optimistic that the world-poverty issue is slowly being solved by modernizing third-world countries. This logic makes sense to me, when more systems and businesses are set up, more jobs are available to the public.
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