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But in 1990, more than 35% of the world’s people were living in extreme poverty, and as recently as 2012, the figure was 12.4%.
If all of this money went to the 768.5 million people living in extreme poverty, it would amount to $191 for each of them.
No wonder that this very modest amount of often-misdirected assistance has yet to end extreme poverty!
But while we wait for our politicians to tackle the root causes of global poverty – and it could be a long wait – let’s concentrate our spare resources on effective aid that helps people in extreme poverty lead the best lives they can.
Ronald Reagan practiced extreme delegation, which worked when he had an able team in place, but turned into a disaster when Donald Regan, John Poindexter, and Oliver North took over.
On an extended trip this summer through rural areas of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa on behalf of the United Nations, I visited countless villages afflicted with extreme hunger and struggling to survive against the odds.
As we overdraw on our planet’s accounts, it is starting to levy penalties on the global economy, in the form of extreme weather events, accelerated melting of ice sheets, rapid biodiversity loss, and the vast bleaching of coral reefs.
Of course, the hideous and crazed words of the leader of Boko Haram, the group that kidnapped the girls, are representative only of the most extreme fringe of this ideology.
At one extreme are groups like Boko Haram.
In recent years, refugees have mainly been fleeing either persecution or extreme insecurity following state disintegration.
It takes too long for the feeling of extreme insecurity to subside; and, meanwhile, the lure of a better life takes hold.
Yes, budgetary waste exists, but it is not the cause of an extreme macroeconomic crisis.
Only then should the Government pledge a responsible path of budget spending, but not extreme cuts.
It is putting forward economically and politically impossible recommendations, telling Argentina to cut public services to the extreme, when schools and hospitals are already on the verge of collapse.
Donald Trump has taken this approach to a new extreme – and has come out on top of the Republican field.
Climate change directly affects the hydrological cycle, which means that all of the efforts that are undertaken to contain greenhouse-gas emissions will help to stabilize rainfall patterns and mitigate the extreme water events that so many regions are already experiencing.
We will never hand the political agenda over to those who offer only simplistic slogans, crude arguments, and extreme policies.
The files’ release has revealed the extreme, and sometimes costly, lengths that individuals go to hide their assets and avoid taxation.
At the other geographic and political extreme, the United Kingdom is threatening to walk out on Europe for good.
Governments and central banks are responding to damaged balance sheets and credit lockups in an attempt to limit extreme harm to their economies outside the financial sector.
First, extreme financial distress can bring down the real economy, with a shortage of credit being the most potent channel.
The unprecedented growth of per capita income during the last 20 years has lifted more than one billion people out of extreme poverty.
Moreover, the extreme weakening and then tightening of credit standards seems particularly prominent only in the US, while the housing boom-bust cycle is prevalent throughout much of the world.
And, according to World Bank data, extreme poverty is close to zero, compared to 11.8% in China in 2009 (the most recent year for which data are available).
For two years (1992-1993), I was a macroeconomic adviser to Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar and Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov, trying to help Russia to end the high inflation and extreme shortages that characterized the last years of the Soviet era, and to begin Russia’s transition to a market economy.
India’s AgonyMUMBAI – In most cities of South Asia, hidden beneath the grime and neglect of extreme poverty, there exists a little Somalia waiting to burst out and infect the body politic.
Most of the people over whom Obiang rules live in extreme poverty, with an average life expectancy of 49 years and an infant mortality rate of 87 per 1,000 live births (in other words, more than one child in twelve dies before its first birthday).
So the politics of extreme ideology is, in the end, a kind of identity politics.
Between now and then, the politics of extreme ideology, like the bad cholesterol it resembles, can do a great deal of damage.
Although India is right to avoid taking financial liberalization to the extreme that the United States did in the decades before the recent meltdown, it can do quite a lot without assuming inappropriate risks, as a commission headed by Rajan detailed a few years back.
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