With Little Notice, Globalization Reduced Poverty

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/little-notice-globalization-reduced-poverty

We are in the midst of the fastest period of poverty reduction the world has ever seen. The global poverty rate, which stood at 25 percent in 2005, is ticking downwards at one to two percentage points a year, lifting around 70 million people – the population of Turkey or Thailand – out of destitution annually.
---Steve