look at the percentage of the population that's living and two or three dollars a day it's a business lehi but it's falling and that is the key 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 clear wake up and the question is are they getting richer or poorer that's 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 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 all right and i did change gears gentlemen literally commission only go back to richard in bangkok ok let's look at the great contraction going back in the night two thousand and eight