Why does this kind of bilge appear in my inbox? If you want to talk religion, by all means do so; there are platforms for that. Disgusting and sociopathic is an accusing finger supported, in this case, by four pointing in the other direction.
Its just best to ignore my friend...otherwise the other flies will take notice and land and fester on it.
Although I disagree with you on many issues, it has to be admitted that this regrettable regime has made concrete progress in some directions, specifically in terms of setting itself public and highly visible targets and achieving them even in part.
Diabolus det suum cuique tribuere....
My friend, it is because you disagree with me on so much (but you explain, with logic and thought.... with sufficient depth or frankness as appropriate why it is so) that makes you one of the truest gems I found on this forum.
Such is becoming increasingly rare these days....even in so called developed countries much better off than ours....and we are all becoming poorer for it. That is my one greatest fear, the way things are unraveling now....but I will be hopeful always too that there are enough people like ole Joe around in the world that will stop this emotional rush to a precipice.
What I am stating is the normal 1.9$, figures
Nope, the world bank has always used PPP in the context of the poverty level (1.9 PPP dollars....it was 1.25 PPP dollars before and 1 PPP dollar before that in previous iterations).
It would actually be very foolish and counterproductive to use the nominal (direct exchange rate) of say 1.9 dollars, since that represents vastly different consumption levels among different countries.....whereas the whole concept of PPP is to have a standardised consumption reference.
Please do a modicum of reading on the subject first before you broach this topic anymore with me:
http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-poverty-line-faq
How do you come up with a global poverty line?
We start with national poverty lines, which usually reflect the line below which a person’s minimum nutritional, clothing, and shelter needs cannot be met in that country. Not surprisingly, richer countries tend to have higher poverty lines, while poorer countries have lower poverty lines.
When we want to identify how many people in the world live in extreme poverty, however, we cannot simply add up the national poverty rates of each country, because this would mean using a different yardstick to identify who is poor in each and every country. We therefore need a poverty line that measures poverty in all countries by the same standard.
In 1990, a group of independent researchers and the World Bank proposed to measure the world’s poor using the standards of the poorest countries in the World. They examined national poverty lines from some of the poorest countries in the world,
and converted the lines to a common currency by using purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates. The PPP exchange rates are constructed to ensure that the same quantity of goods and services are priced equivalently across countries. Once converted into a common currency, they found that in six of these very poor countries the value of the national poverty line was about $1 per day per person, and this formed the basis for the first dollar-a-day international poverty line.
After a new round and larger volume of internationally comparable prices were collected in 2005, the international poverty line was revised based on 15 national poverty lines from some of the poorest countries in the World. The average of these 15 lines was $1.25 per person per day (again in PPP terms), and this became the revised international poverty line.
And again this year, we used the poverty lines of those same 15 poorest countries from 2005 (holding steady the yardstick against which we measure) to determine the
new global poverty line of $1.90 in 2011 PPP.
