Global dire poverty fell from 47 to 14 percent since 1990, largely via China

Evidence

Even with the present population, millions of people are living in hovels in megacities. They are struggling to survive with scarcities of food, fresh water, basic sanitation, medical services, and other necessities of life. According to the UN Development Goals Project, 14% of the world’s people live in dire poverty, down from 47% in 1990, largely due to efforts by China (Sengupta, 2015). … Swelling populations are creating a humanitarian crisis. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2652

Categorization

• QUESTION: The poverty-reduction attribution largely to China is a contestable claim worth holding separately from the dire-poverty-outlook point.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2652