DO YOU THINK THAT THE GENERAL SITUATION OF THE POORER HALF OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION HAS IMPROVED OR WORSENED IN THE LAST 25 YEARS?

Not many people realize that more than half of the world's population is undernourished or malnourished and one in every three of them lives in an abject poverty. These facts are the ones that fund-raising agencies or news media often glorify for obvious reasons. Compassion, feeling of guilt makes people donate money thus allowing organizations like Action Aid to operate. With the news about mass education, reduction in population and fund-raising organizations, it seems the …

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