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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Prosperity Rising Author: Steven Radelet Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Length: 29 mins Language: English Release date: 12-14-15 Publisher: Foreign Affairs Genres: Newspapers & Magazines, News & Culture Publisher's Summary: Since the early 1990s, daily life in poor countries has been changing profoundly for the better: one billion people have escaped extreme poverty, average incomes have doubled, infant death rates have plummeted, millions more girls have enrolled in school, chronic hunger has been cut almost in half, deaths from malaria and other diseases have declined dramatically, democracy has spread far and wide, and the incidence of war - even with Syria and other conflicts - has fallen by half. This unprecedented progress goes way be-yond China and India and has touched hundreds of millions of people in dozens of developing countries across the globe, from Mongolia to Mozambique, Bangladesh t