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From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [FutureOfBangladesh] It's Time to Shine a Light on the Poverty Creation Industry
From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:00 AM
Subject: [FutureOfBangladesh] It's Time to Shine a Light on the Poverty Creation Industry
Dr. Md. Yunus has been a part of this new kind of Poverty Creating Machine. It has been proven, again and again, that his project of micro credit preserves the Status Quo. That is why he is rewarded by the U S A. Notice, Europe isn't cheering Yunus much, is she? Neither is the public in Bangladesh.
<< Over the last two centuries, global inequality has steadily increased. We know this because whilst ratios of absolute poverty have been decreasing over the last two centuries, the standard measure of inequality – the Gini coefficient – has risen from 43.0 in 1820 to 70.7 in 2002. (A score of 0 means everyone has exactly the same amount and 100 means one person controls everything.) This trend has been accelerating since 1980, when the latest round of 'free market' policies was put in place. It is being exacerbated still further in most countries by both the economic crisis and climate change. >>
Remember, 250 yrs ago Bengal was one of the richest countries in the world!
It's Time to Shine a Light on the Poverty Creation Industry
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15726-its-time-to-shine-a-light-on-the-poverty-creation-industry<< Over the last two centuries, global inequality has steadily increased. We know this because whilst ratios of absolute poverty have been decreasing over the last two centuries, the standard measure of inequality – the Gini coefficient – has risen from 43.0 in 1820 to 70.7 in 2002. (A score of 0 means everyone has exactly the same amount and 100 means one person controls everything.) This trend has been accelerating since 1980, when the latest round of 'free market' policies was put in place. It is being exacerbated still further in most countries by both the economic crisis and climate change. >>
Remember, 250 yrs ago Bengal was one of the richest countries in the world!
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