via One Good Move.

To qualify “Third World,” just a bit, and contradict some presumptions you may have, Hans Rosling presents some interesting statistics.

A great number of factors contribute to the changes he presents in the following video (including education, western cultural advances, technological advances, et cetera), but it is undeniable that the World Bank and IMF loans / advisory councils do have some part to play in the few good effects of globalization. Increased trade and imports of the kind created by IMF opportunities, as well as the infrastructural models prescribed by the World Bank for creating prosperity in developing nations (though mostly benefiting U.S. of A corporations, and almost always damaging local economies) can help in feeding a nation more efficiently, and relieve certain political stresses.

These positive changes which have occurred are fairly surprising: