2 Answers. 20,000 leagues = 69,040 miles 1 league = 3.452 miles first used by the Celtics. It is based in how far a person walked in 1 hour. The unit of Miles depended upon the area and era.
Why does poverty exist in a free market economy? Poverty exists in a free market economy because people can choose how to make their money. What is the difference between cash transfers and in-kind benefits Benefit In Kind is a benefit other than cash received by employees as part of their total compensation package.
China pulled 680m people out of misery in 1981-2010, and reduced its extreme-poverty rate from 84% in 1980 to 10% now. That is one reason why (as the briefing explains) it will be harder to take a billion more people out of extreme poverty in the next 20 years than it was to take almost a billion out in the past 20.