Corey’s Reviews > The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation > Status Update

"The chorus of neoliberal ideologues tell us a story that is well suited to their class interests. Global capitalism is drawing an ever-larger number of people out of poverty, hunger, and disease. Their metrics and data, as we have seen, are deeply problematic. If any reasonable measure of poverty is used, it is clear that the number of people in the world living in poverty has increased dramatically since 1990."