chinese declined by 680 million people in the last three decades. that's about 95% of the total global decline. by registering double-digit growth for three decades, beijing has transformed within a generation. that's amazing, but it tells you that in the rest of the world, progress has been much, much slower, if there has been progress at all. there is a lesson here for other developing countries. take india, for example, new delhi made strides against poverty. the problem is those strides have only been a few steps ahead of population growth. look at the numbers. in 1941, 229 million lived in poverty. by 2010, the percentage of impositive rshed people dropped to 23% and the total number of -- you see india's population