Telegraph: Here's a forecast that brought me up short this week. Within 20 years, on present trends, dire poverty will have been eliminated in Bangladesh -- and others among the world's poorest countries.
It seems incredible. The South Asian nation -- the most densely populated sizeable country on earth -- had long been written off. But the prediction is based on exhaustive, if pioneering, Oxford University research and backed up by other authoritative reports.
In a study published this month, covering...