It’s amazing just how the wealthy can argue about poverty wow $1.60 a day to $7 in 8 years is this  really the destruction of poverty?  Who is taking part in this conversation? They ought to see what Australia has acheived over the past 200 years to improve the lives of the first Australians who colonisers said said weren’t here until Mabo  This is the reverse of the Monty Python skit on who was brought up the poorest.(ODT)

But one thing seems clear — it was decolonisation that ultimately made it possible for poor countries to start catching up. Free from the crushing burden of producing resources and crops for their colonial masters, many of these countries were able to pursue their own destinies and to experiment with economic policies until they found a mix that worked. The triumph of decolonisation is a story that even Hickel should be able to feel happy about.

Bill Gates is right about poverty, the world really is getting richer