Global poverty doubled since 1970s: UN

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GENEVA — The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown two-fold, a UN think-tank warned Thursday.

In its annual report on the 49 least developed countries (LDCs) in the world, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said that the model of development that has prevailed to date for these countries has failed and should be re-assessed.

“The traditional models that have been applied to LDCs that tend to move the LDCs in the direction of trade-related growth seem not to have done very well,” said Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary general of UNCTAD.

“What happened is that in the past 30-40 years, the number of LDCs have doubled so it has actually deteriorated, the number of people living under the poverty line has doubled from the 1980s.”

The report indicated that the situation has sharply deteriorated in the past few years.

The number of individuals living in extreme poverty “increased by three million per year during the boom years of 2002 and 2007,” reaching 421 million people in 2007.

While these countries proved somewhat resilient during the crisis, they are nevertheless very fragile, notably due to their dependence on imports.

“The import dependence has become quite devastating, the expenditure for LDCs on food imports rose from 9 billion dollars in 2002 to 23 billion in 2008,” noted Supachai.

In addition, the economies in these countries are little diversified, with very weak improvements in domestic savings, a strong reliance on external savings and a faster depletion of natural resources, said UNCTAD.

“All these shortcomings are now hindering the nations’ post-recession development prospects,” it warned, calling on the countries to adopt a new structure of development.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KFOFZHLUNJCQATOHPSVHSFKP3I pw

    This is the model the banks will follow for the rest of the developed world. Engineered financial implosion and black holes, to aid in developing their new world order. Debts are not designed to be paid back, nor can they be.

  • http://proudprimate.com ProudPrimate

    “the model of development that has prevailed to date for these countries has failed”

    Nonsense! The model of exploitation has been perfected. Expect more of the same, and gales of laughter from Wall Street.

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  • Anonymous

    From the Story

    “What happened is that in the past 30-40 years, the number of LDCs have doubled so it has actually deteriorated, the number of people living under the poverty line has doubled from the 1980s.”

    More evidence, if we needed it, that globalization under the Hayek/Friedman neoliberal model of free trade and large scale extraction of minerals and resources by companies wholly owned by huge multinationals who basically steal the nation’s wealth, while offering little or nothing in the form of development. What little development that occurs is only designed to benefit the extraction process, and is generally accomplished by loaning back to the government monies that were already stolen from the country in the form of the extractable minerals and resources. Then when the loan payments become over bearing especially in the as the extractable resources begin to run out or the prices for those minerals and resources fall the country is left with a huge debt which can only be paid by an infamous neoliberal austerity program designed to wrest every last salvageable business possibility from the government, whether water utility or electric company or any other source of money, while the government is forced to cut back on any programs that might help the people living in the country.

    But never fear if the neoliberals and their friends and supporters here have anything to say about it, by the time they get done privatizing the rest of the United States government functions including Social Secuity, the Veterans Administration, and Medicare, the U.S. will be added to this same list of damaged countries. And don’t think for a minute that if one of these ignoramuses currently thinking about running from the right or many more of these rabid Rand Paul Teaparty types get elected to Congress that it won’t happen within the next ten years.

    These anti-government free market obsessed radicals are getting up steam and they will not stop until their are two distinct classes in the United States the super rich and the poor. The transfer of wealth that began under Reagan continues unabated and the amount accruing to the top 10 percent increases every year and the power that this money buys increases with each new Supreme Court decision.

    And if Obama or some Democrat can’t change the balance on the Court soon, we are all doomed to lose whatever remains of the remnants of a middle class. And if you think for a minute that the Hayek/Friedman model encourages a healthy middle class think again. The middle class is the enemy in Hayek’s “The Constitution of Liberty” and he even refers to the middle class as the “them” in his “us/them” dichotomy. So the disappearance of the middle class is not an anomaly or an unanticipated result of their policies, it is part of the process, a part of their goal. The middle class is in their eyes simply getting a undeserved piece of what they consider their profits and they want that money for themselves.

    And anyone who argues to the contrary has not read Hayek very carefully at all.

  • http://proudprimate.com Anonymous

    “the model of development that has prevailed to date for these countries has failed”

    Nonsense! The model of exploitation has been perfected.

    Expect more of the same, and gales of laughter from Wall Street.

  • Anonymous

    Can’t speak for the rest of the world, but as for here in the U.S., how’s that “War on Poverty” working out for ya? In case you haven’t noticed, any time they declare a “War on XXX”, XXX ends up getting worse, not better… And any time you have to codify “Free Trade” you can pretty well guarantee that the “Trade” will be anything but “Free”.

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/GCPX7DXZGK2H2CPNYRR5IS5A64 Turnip Mcgee

    When you systematically employ a global United Fruit Company model, and lever up the ante with IMF money-sharking when our Despot du Jour fails to pay the Vig, extreme poverty is the expected outcome.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Thats because we didn’t move them into trade related growth…we moved them into debt related slavery. Quit letting World Bank and IMF dictate the terms of aid to these countries and you might see a glimmer of improvement. Stop bombing countries that attempt to claim ownership of billions in mineral rights that were sold for pennies to foreign companies…the sales were illegal and thats final. Let them profit from their own efforts instead of bleeding them dry and keeping them dependent.

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  • http://voxxrocks.com/blog/?page_id=396 HIStory Indeed

    The current system of economic slavery is working for those at the tippy top. It captures more and more of humanity and the resources of the Earth daily. The UN was put in place to facilitate the process and according to this report, they seem to be doing quite well.

    We will never be free as a species under this system. We will never have a peaceful world if we continue to live under the spell of money, the false wealth it brings or the destruction it leaves in its wake.

    We cannot continue to keep from another what he or she needs to survive and expect change. We cannot continue to live in scarcity while the economic vultures circle over the strays we’ve turned our back on because we too are struggling.

    The time for struggle has passed. The time to engage each other and hold fast against the storm is upon us. The time of the warrior monk is now.

    The Curtain Must Fall!

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  • Aleph3777

    As if they don’t know that the greatest cause of poverty in the world today and the extreme distortions in wealth/resource distribution is the banking system. Fiat money, fractional reserve banking and a system rigged to privatize profits and socialize costs are obviously going to lead to such results. We have given the power to create credit and therefore money to private corporations….that is where it all goes wrong and they should all know that.

  • Anonymous

    The poor does not matter to the upper hatters who only worry about the their bottom line and improving on that. That so many people are starving, out of work, not knowing what the next day will bring matters not. Poverty is a result of the wrong kind of capitalism and the wrong kind of use of resources without concern for the consequences and without thinking that more can be shared and still the wealthy would have more than enough to live their lives out in luxury, but too many live theirs out in misery for no fault of their own. This always remnds of the Fritz Lang silent movie classic METROPOLIS (1929).

  • Jaimie

    Exactly! The IMF & World Bank too.

    Read “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” – John Perkins.

    http://www.amazon.com/John-Perkins/e/B000APETSY

    http://www.johnperkins.org/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    I think most of us have experienced this to some degree.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    I think most of us have experienced this firsthand.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t worry…we are rushing to catch up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WEAPT7CBGVXZE6PI5TQJ4ONNPM ndasilva28

    dum dum dum all the goy in a line waiting for a crumb of bread

    dum dum dum all the goy in a line waiting for “charity”

    you think this is an “accident”? or “natural course of economics”? lol be a good goy and go serve someone let those who been doing the thinking for you do what they will as they always have.

  • Anonymous

    the poor people have more children than the rich. why? because FUCKING is the only fun they have.

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  • Anonymous

    The only end point to this is further poverty, collapse and starvation – nature telling us there are too many people. The global inequality is the cause of unbalanced population growth and impoverished lives. We perversely waste scarce resources on things that destroy when directing a fraction of these resources could help stabilise population levels and reduce disease.

    In response to the stupid and ignorant comment about poor people having more children than the rich. Poor people have more children as it is their safety net in old age (no welfare system, pension, etc) and also historically many children died at birth or when very young. If you provide increased incomes, health care, education, etc, people tend to have less children as has been the case with countries that have higher per capita incomes.

  • http://proudprimate.com Anonymous

    One of the most important books of the last quarter century. Interesting side note: Greg Palast says he knew and knocked heads with Perkins when he was still up to his ears in the scam, and he was a total asshole. But he has more than redeemed himself by his courageous turnaround. Palast of course was an investigator of power plant scams in upstate New York, and also for the UN, before his celebrity/notoriety battles against the Deep State.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Harry-Roache-Wilson/1026333873 Harry Roache-Wilson

    this is disgusting. DOWN WITH THE WEST. save us from the pigs al qaeda

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HTTBJPO3AK6EPBAJVNA46GS5EQ stanm

    Not only has global poverty double from the 1970s, chemicals in food and the environment increased, and the likelihood of global warming has also increased. The world’s population has continued to increase. And, the U.S. hasn’t ceased in its efforts to make war as opposed to develop diplomatic relations aboard.

    Remember the 1960s and all those “leftists,” so they were labeled, whether absolutely true or not, who began warning us about environmental problems, the continued deterioration of the planet and global poverty? Well, they’re ideas, notions and plans were disposed of by blitz of misinformation, quite successfully.

    So, here we stand today, quite dumbfounded muttering to ourselves, “Huh? What happened?”

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    So, what’s happened to the billions and billions that Bill Gates and his oligarchical friends claim to be giving to the “poor and needy”? Why the hell can’t the people wake up and see the fraud that surrounds them, every day?! Monsanto, Big Pharma and the banksters are very close to TOTAL CONTROL!

  • Anonymous

    The environmentalist ( whites who have every reason to fear the sun ) are the problem. Do you really believe that they didn’t have something to do with this? Create a problem, then “solve” it. The third world has gone down to even lower lengths since these people have gotten their say. They are the reason so many people are dying in these countries of the “so called” environmental disasters. Foster dependence, then blame the dependents.

    If more people had tightened up the immigration laws and kept Europeans out of their countries none of this would be happening now. It’s the “white establishment” in other nations that has caused these problems. Maybe, it’s the people of European descent who should have stayed in the “their” home countries of origin to begin with, that have created and benefited from these problems.

    Modern “civilization” forced on everyone else has crippled them, and caused all of the environmental disasters so far. Maybe the planet heating up would be a good thing. At least then, the 10% of people ( Europeans and their white American counterparts ) who own 90% of the resources would die of sun exposure and then the world could heal itself.

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