[Peace-discuss] Chris Hedges interviews David Harvey

[David Green]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/nov/01/global-poverty-is-worse-than-you-think-could-you-live-on-190-a-day

Hickel addresses the problematic assumptions of World Bank data.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:58 PM Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> I guess one would have to know how global poverty is determined/measured.
> Forget about China’s urbanization, how about Asia or Africa or SE Asia?
> What are the sources of whomever tries tø measure it?
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> On Jun 11, 2018, at 10:21 PM, David Green <davidgreen50 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My understanding of global poverty, based on the important work of Jason
> Hickel, is that any meaningful decrease in global poverty is attributable
> solely to the urbanization of China. This is an old article, but this
> analysis has been recently incorporated into a book:
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> https://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/04/15/truth-about-extreme-global-inequality
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> This is a more recent interview about the book, very clear, 35 minutes:
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> https://thisishell.com/interviews/1006-jason-hickel
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> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:19 PM Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Not quite a coherent story from David Harvey, although absorbing to
>> listen to him. I suppose one should purhase his book to see if he fills in
>> the holes of his verbal statements here. E.g., has global poverty not
>> regressed? Despite increased inequality. Perhaps I’m lacking in
>> understanding the fundamentals of economics.
>>
>> --mkb
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>> On Jun 11, 2018, at 9:14 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <
>> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>
>> Standard Harvey but always informative, especially re China:
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hgszeNb8wU
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