Capital poured in from outside, economic growth surged, and poverty began to fall.Today, the mood could hardly be more different.
Um… for starters, one of those is a huge country with a billion people surging out of poverty, and one is a 50-mile stretch in California full of millionaires….
The blights of urban poverty, surging crime rates, illegal immigration and homosexuality had yet to be invented.
As noted by Stephenson in her perspective on HIV/AIDS surging in Eastern Europe, increased poverty, unemployment, an ailing public health system, and other manifestations of socioeconomic turmoil have fostered drug use, an increase in prostitution, and epidemics of sexually transmitted disease which, in turn, increase the spread of HIV [ 7].
At first, the results were promising: inflation, a chronic Latin vice, was slayed; growth surged again, and poverty began to fall.Related items Argentina's election: Reform not revolutionApr 24th 2003Subsequent recessions and financial crises, especially severe in South America, have wiped away some (in places much) of those gains.
Over the last decade, child poverty surged in 38 states and erased many of the gains in child well-being made in the last 20 years, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Egypt has experienced a surge in poverty and childhood stunting, a result of poor nutrition.So far Arab countries have generally done a creditable job, at least in some fields.
Trade has brought higher incomes to millions of people in China and in India, in the largest surge from poverty in all of human history.
Roughly 136,000 Puerto Ricans fled to the mainland United States in the wake of the storm, and the island nation saw a surge in poverty.
Obama went even further and downplayed the surge in poverty that has dumped nearly 50 million Americans in or near poverty, and who without government subsistence programs most would sink deeply beneath the poverty line.
