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US intelligence predicts poverty will be virtually eliminated by 2030 globally | | Poverty will be virtually eliminated by 2030 globally, with a rising middle class of some two billion people pushing for more rights and demanding more resources, the chief of
the National Intelligence Council, a top US intelligence analysis body, has said. According to
Fox News, if the current trend continues, one billion people who live on less than a dollar a
day now, will drop to half that number in roughly two decades. It quoted Christoper Kojm, as
saying: "We see the rise of the global middle class going from one to two billion." Kojm was
giving a preview of the National Intelligence Council's global forecast offered at the Aspen
Security Forum in Colorado . "Even if some of the most dire predictions of economic
upheaval" in the coming years prove accurate, the intelligence council still sees "several
hundred million people...entering
the middle class," Kojm said. The rising middle class will have little tolerance
of authoritarian regimes, combined with the economic resources and education needed to
challenge them. "Governance will be increasingly difficult in countries with
rising incomes," he said, adding "middle-class people have middle-class values
and aspirations" for greater individual empowerment, and are now armed with social
media and other technological tools to bring that about, including the overthrow
of repressive governments. Education levels are also rising, with graduation rates
for women set to exceed that of men if current trends continue. Kojm also predicted
that new technological developments could help close the gap between food and
water shortages and need. More people will migrate to cities, he said. Some 50
percent of the world lives in urban areas now, rising to 60 percent by 2030. The
growth of the Asian economies, such as China , is expected to continue, but Kojm
said the rising median age of China's workers means it may be overtaken by countries
with cheaper labour like India, Vietnam and Indonesia.
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