Late in his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama made a bold claim: “In many places, people live on little more than a dollar a day. So the United States will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in the next two decades.” The question naturally becomes: Can we really end extreme poverty in the next two decades? Can the world collectively achieve a bare minimum standard of living embraced by every country around the globe?
The answer, by and large, is yes.
The above excerpt was originally published in Foreign Policy.
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