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Old 09-23-2004, 07:09 AM  
majortom
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Originally posted by Odin88
Quite obviously a lot of people in this world live very badly, but that figure is a poor judge of this. $1 per day in some countries is enough to eat, drink, go to school and so on, whereas in every Western nations you could not afford even 1 very small meal daily. Of course this is not to say that billions of people don't live in poverty, just that using such figures is silly.
What country????

After 25 years as an expat in Asia and Africa I can garanty you that 1$/ day.....is not enought to feed anybody anywhere in the world.....

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