The author argued that all the attention we’ve been focusing on social inequality and wealth accumulation among the richest 1 per cent is misplaced. The 1 per cent may now have more wealth than the combined population of the entire rest of the world, but that’s OK because the very system that has made them so rich has also reduced poverty in developing countries. ‘We are, right now, living through the golden age of poverty reduction,’ the author wrote. ‘Anyone serious about tackling global poverty has to accept that whatever we’re doing now, it’s working – so we should keep doing it. We are on
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