The irony is that Angola, where 70% of the people live in abject poverty, is rich.
Thirty years of conflict had decimated infrastructure, created chronic security risks, encouraged corruption, and left most Afghans in abject poverty.
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While technology continues to improve the standard of living for millions, there are still millions more living in abject poverty.
Turkmenistan has the fifth-largest deposits of natural gas in the world but most of its population live in abject poverty.
One of four children, she was born, her biographer David Weaver tells us, in abject poverty in a small town in Mississippi.
Eighty percent of the 8.7 million Haitians live in poverty and 54 percent live in abject poverty, according to the CIA's World Factbook.
Ceri Jackson, director of Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Cymru, said the charity "regularly comes into contact with blind and partially sighted people living in abject poverty".
The most common argument for economic peace has its roots in the notion that there no real ideologues, only angry young men with no jobs, only societies where violence is sustained by the worthlessness of life in abject poverty.
Many of us do this but an entire generation is now living in fear of abject poverty because we depend so much on money.
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Capitalism and technology have lifted more people out of abject poverty than anything else in the history of human civilization.
Over a billion people came out of abject poverty thanks to the changed economic discussion, and Kemp, Bell and others played a big role in changing it.
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