4.1% of the world's poor live in the USA.


	4.1% of the world's poor live in the USA.

petercasier

4-3-2008 4:26 PM

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petercasier says:

And yet, according to the GDP, the US is the 5th wealthiest country in the world

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4-4-2008 7:12 PM

n2sooners

I'd be willing to bet that the standards for those two numbers are completely different making the assumption in the title completely false.

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