[maninasia]

Originally Posted by ardmacha

The original point remains true, some Asian countries are extremely poor while others are wealthier than Ireland. Bangladesh, Burma, Laos, for instance, are poor by international standards and poorer than many African countries.

Ireland's problems are not comparable with Bangladesh, and the term poverty was inappropriate in the original post.

Don't use the word Asia then, it is misleading.

[RealityCheck]

Originally Posted by Nijmegen

Firstly, re: poverty, I'd go spend a few weeks in any one of a number of African or Asian countries before talking about the poverty we have in the west. Somehow, I don't see it getting that bad.

That being said, if we do go back in... Well, feck it, we're all going down together (except the people who screwed us).

However, economists are often shoot in the dark, get lucky types. Ask 3 economists their opinion about the economy tomorrow and you'll get 18 answers.

Originally Posted by maninasia

Don't use the word Asia then, it is misleading.

He said a number of countries what is all the fuss about? Was he meant to name every single poverty stricken country, there are quite a few in both continents.

[maninasia]

He could just as easily have said Romania or some other dump in Europe, I'm not sure if the 'number of' was there originally.