China has been successful at lifting much of its population out of poverty. This was accomplished through policies that distributed wealth more evenly and increased access to resources. The document discusses definitions of poverty and statistics showing declines in global poverty rates from 52% in 1981 to 21% in 2012. Countries like Norway have almost no poverty due to policies that lift up the masses as consumers rather than just showing off wealth. Wealth is defined not just by GNP but also general well-being as measured by GNH.

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Poverty
By Hedda Helén Svendsen

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Find an example of a country that has
been successful at lifting all or most of it
population out of poverty.
Discuss explanations of how this was
accomplished.

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-How to define poverty?
-How to lift ourselves out of poverty?

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Poverty definition
 ”The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or
means of support; condition of being poor” -
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poverty
 Absolute and relative poverty

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Poverty stats
 Improved
 Today: 1,22 billion
1981
52%
1990
43%
2012
21%

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How to lift a family
out of poverty
- Simple tools that improves living
standards
- Lifted out out absolute poverty = a
consumer

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How to lift a country out of poverty
 Resources

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Stats poverty
GNP in 2012:
Nigeria $2,490 Norway $98,780

9. + With almost the same resources, how does
differences like this develop?
 Norway, Nigeria
 Policy of wealth distribution
 Lifting the masses = consumers
 ”Showing of” instead of lifting

10. +What is wealth?
GNP VS GNH

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Sources
 http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/povertyred
uction/overview.html
 http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fattigdom
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-22/bill-gates-predicts-
almost-no-poor-countries-left-in-2035/5213712
 Hans Rosling
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_o
n_poverty
 http://data.worldbank.org nigeria and norway

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Thank you for your attention!