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by AnimalMuppet 4520 days ago
And, if I understand him correctly, the ceiling is set by the quality of the country's institutions. That's really hard to fix.

Gates may be right that most countries will be out of absolute poverty. (In fact, I hope he is right.) But I suspect that Kay is right that most countries still won't be in the "rich" camp, even by 2014 standards.