at the percentage of the population that's living and two or three dollars a day it's a bismillah a high but it's falling and that is the key and it used to be that almost everyone except for the tiny ruling elites who controlled the states lived at such an abysmal level of poverty that percentage has been falling as a percentage of world population he mentioned the case of india he said well still it's the case for lots of poor people in india have always been wake up and the question is are they getting richer or poorer that is the relevant question poverty is the natural state of mankind and wealth has to be created it's created by free market capitalism by investment by production and by exchange so if you want to look at india the question is is has it been changing since ninety ninety one for better or for worse and the question is unmistakable for better the same thing in china i visit both countries and i did change gears gentlemen literally commission you want to go back to richard in bangkok ok let's look at the great contraction going back to now two thousand and eight i mean