[thworp]

> but I disagree that the progress has been tremendous.

There really is no argument that it hasn't. If we take a year between 1950 and 1970 as a baseline, there was a significant reduction in chronic malnutrition and the number and severity of famines -- both in absolute numbers as well as per capita.

> it has remained about the same for about a decade

If your time horizon is the last 10 years then the picture is more mixed, yea.