In a further sort of exodus, American Jews have moved: from poverty to affluence, tradition to modernity, acquaintance with a shared history to loss of collective memory.
Outlier counties are those that are more impoverished or affluent than would be expected given the level of poverty or affluence of the adjoining counties.
"During 50 years of development, Tibet has moved from darkness to light, poverty to affluence, dictatorship to democracy, and seclusion to opening up".
In not much more than a decade, Singaporeans passed from poverty to affluence, & the nation's economy from a basket case to the powerhouse of southern Asia.
The rise of the Asian Tigers -- Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong (then still a British colony) from destitute poverty to affluence came long before China decamped from its faith in the Little Red Book and began its journey down the capitalist road.
"Daly and Wilson found a strong correlation between high Gini scores [a measure of inequality] and high homicide rates in Canadian provinces and U.S. counties," Horgan writes, "blaming homicides not on poverty per se but on the collision of poverty and affluence, the ancient tug-of-war between haves and have-nots".
Eight years and more than 5,000 donations later, the museum has raised about $30 million (about a third of it from government sources), a staggering amount in a region that still has pockets of poverty despite the affluence of some of its second-home owners.
It comes from the confluence of three muddy streams in our contemporary globalised world: persistent poverty in the midst of affluence, the growing power of religion to boost and legitimise political ambition, and different forms of religious extremism threatened by modernity and led into violence.
John P. Holdren, now President Obama's science adviser, wrote in "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being" that when you measure human harm in years of life lost (e.g., a child cut down by disease loses decades; a grandmother dying of a stroke at 80 loses a few years), the major afflictions of poverty and affluence do us in at roughly equal rates.
The truth is that those who actually make it out of poverty into affluence are the exceptions that prove the rule.
