Short YouTube clip from a Ben Greenfield podcast (recorded July 18, 2018) in which Chris Shore (World Vision) explains the concept of "generational poverty." He notes major global progress—extreme poverty fell from roughly 35% in 1990 to under 10% at the time of the clip—and argues that those still in extreme poverty are largely smallholder farmers who remain vulnerable to shocks (illness, drought, floods) and have remained in poverty across generations.
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About 35%.
Under 10% (as of the time of the discussion).
July 18, 2018.
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Hey, this is Ben Greenfield. I thought you'd like this little clip of my latest podcast is this concept of generational poverty that occurs in these other countries outside of, you know, the, you know, a lot of our listeners are Australia and UK and the US And Canada. But explain to me what's going on with generational poverty in a lot of these other countries.
Okay, well, let me explain poverty just in general a little bit. The world has been trying to get rid of poverty now for quite some time. It was part of a big effort that the United nations led called the Millennium Development Goals. And the world has been really, really successful, actually, in reducing and even eliminating extreme poverty. We've gone from about 35% of the world's population living in extreme poverty in 1990 to under 10% today. So. So 35% to 10% in the last.
What is that, 35 years or so? Huge improvement. Huge improvement. But the people who are still living in poverty right now are largely smallholder farmers, people who farm small amounts of land. And for generations, these people have only known extreme poverty. They've never grown their farming business, if you will, from being anything more than a way to feed themselves. And they've always been right at the edge of.
If there was any kind of shock, like somebody got sick or it didn't rain or it rained too much, that they would lose basically everything and have to start all over again.
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