However, the result of past decades of development shows that a large amount of rethinking of the entire issue is needed to move past barriers to achieve progress outside local communities. ... The report's Human Development Index ranks countries by health, sanitation, the treatment of women and other aspects of life that " give what the authors believe is a truer picture of day-to-day existence" (Leone pg 43). ... And although the first assumption would be that global poverty would be caused by natural population increase, studies of developing countries such as Bangladesh would show t...

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Easterly (1999) and Harrigan (2007) even show evidence to prove that in some recipient countries, foreign aid does not bridge the financing gap of productive investment but instead contributes to the increasing consumption of the government, resulting in the so-called Dutch disease and macroeconomic imbalances. ...

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