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Europe will be criminally naïve if it thinks the Yanks are only trying this with Greenland.
America is our enemy now, we must now wallow in confusion and hurt feelings while this predator strikes.
Don't be a Neville Chamberlain
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This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded #economy. If you intensify the #exploitation of your domestic #workingclass & #resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a #revolution.
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This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded #economy. If you intensify the #exploitation of your domestic #workingclass & #resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a #revolution.
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To maintain the process of perpetual accumulation requires massive quantities of cheap #labor & cheap #nature. You have to deny people control over their #land, & deny #workers access to the yields of their #production.
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And for #capital, the purpose of #production is not to meet #human needs, or to achieve #social progress, but to maximize & accumulate #profit. That is the overriding objective.
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#Imperialism & #racism are central to the #capitalist world #economy. The #barbarism is a feature, not a bug.
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This bears repeating: despite the massive #productivity of the world #economy, nearly one-third of the #human population does not have secure access to #food.
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A growing body of #literature argues that the #WorldBank ’s PPP-based method has a major empirical limitation: it does not account for the cost of meeting basic needs in any given context.
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We have this new piece in The Conversation describing recent #scholarship on the question of extreme #poverty, with Dylan Sullivan and Michalis Moatsos.
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This bears repeating: despite the massive #productivity of the world #economy, nearly one-third of the #human population does not have secure access to #food.
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Given that secure access to #food is central to the BNPL method, this suggests that post-2011 #poverty trends have probably not improved much.
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Third, while we don't yet have robust BNPL data after 2011, we know that #food insecurity has increased steadily in more recent years, going from 21% in 2014 to 30% in 2022.
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First, progress is slower than we thought. Between 1980 & 2011, global extreme #poverty declined by only six percentage points, from 23% to 17%. During the same period, the number of people in extreme poverty actually increased, from 1.01 billion to 1.20 billion.
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Second, #poverty alleviation has not been steady. In the 1990's the poverty rate increased dramatically, during the period when #neoliberal structural adjustment programmes were imposed on many developing countries.
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The BNPL data indicates that the story of global #poverty over the past few decades is more complex – & more troubling – than we previously understood. There are three major findings.
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First, progress is slower than we thought. Between 1980 & 2011, global extreme #poverty declined by only six percentage points, from 23% to 17%. During the same period, the number of people in extreme poverty actually increased, from 1.01 billion to 1.20 billion.
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This approach is known as the “basic needs #poverty line” (BNPL), & it more closely reflects what the original concept of extreme poverty was intended to measure.
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The BNPL data indicates that the story of global #poverty over the past few decades is more complex – & more troubling – than we previously understood. There are three major findings.
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Scholars have recently developed a more accurate method for measuring extreme #poverty. This is done by comparing people’s #incomes to the prices of essential goods (specifically #food, #shelter, #clothing & #fuel) in each country.
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This approach is known as the “basic needs #poverty line” (BNPL), & it more closely reflects what the original concept of extreme poverty was intended to measure.
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A growing body of #literature argues that the #WorldBank ’s PPP-based method has a major empirical limitation: it does not account for the cost of meeting basic needs in any given context.
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Scholars have recently developed a more accurate method for measuring extreme #poverty. This is done by comparing people’s #incomes to the prices of essential goods (specifically #food, #shelter, #clothing & #fuel) in each country.
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A growing body of #literature argues that the #WorldBank ’s PPP-based method has a major empirical limitation: it does not account for the cost of meeting basic needs in any given context.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#RNC#GOP#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#Harris#TimWalz#Walz#Democracy#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive