Good news 2: Global child death rates decline

Nicholas Kristoff, of the New York Times, reported related good news:

1.  In 1990 more than 12 million children died before the age of 3;   that has now been cut in half.

2.  In the 1980s only half of girls in developing countries completed elementary school;   now 80% do.

3.  Specific diseases that affect millions in third world countries due to poor sanitation have been sharply curtailed, often through simple, inexpensive methods.   These include leprosy, elephantiasis, river blindness.

4.  In many parts of the developing world, birth rates have been sharply diminished, notably Haiti, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.

The world community is doing a good job on poverty;   not so much on sectarian violence and war.

Ralph