Re: Report says 836 million Indian's (77%) have an income below 50 cents a day.
The problem is that countries like India and China have massive populations and thus large numbers of them will remain in poverty. There is simply not enough money in this world to lift billions of people out of poverty.
However, it is their massive population that is helping them rise. In my own theory, as the dispersion of education becomes easier, those countries with the highest populations will rise to the top of super power stati.