INTL 1101 Chapter Notes -Extreme Poverty, Capitalism, Sub-Saharan Africa

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: International Affairs
• Course: INTL 1101
• Professor: Denise Horn

Document Summary

Since beginning of 1800"s to first half of 1900"s, changes in inequality among the world"s individuals have been driven by changes in the relative wealth of nations. The world bank study suffers from two defects: It had to rely on highly limited data from so far back. It ended in "92 before a huge surge of growth in asia. Extreme poverty has become the affliction of less than a quarter of a vastly increase human population. Incidence of poverty fell sharply in south asia.