Is the declining rate of global poverty simply a neoliberal lie, spread by the likes of Bill Gates? According to British-based academic Jason Hickel the answer is yes — because the data on global poverty only ‘looks’ better because of communist China’s rapid development.
This claim is blatantly wrong for several reasons.
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