article_snippet: We all read about the economic inequality between the rich and poor nations, and about the great wealth gap between the rich and poor people within nations, but until you actually see people – one third of the world, in fact – trying to manage to live on less than two dollars a day, it does not hit home,' says Podell .
article_snippet: With an accommodation budget of around £7 per night, the writer has unrolled the writer sleeping bag 'at border posts, roadsides, jungles, glaciers, airport floors, and in hostels,  tents, trailers, trees, teepees, campers, cars, caravansaries, desert dugouts, and flea-bag motels alternately sweating and freezing; dodging dengue- fever mosquitoes by day and malarial ones by night.' 'I preferred to eat from open-air stands where I could see the cooking, and the dishwashing, and how healthy the chef looked.
article_snippet: The residences and dwelling places made me wonder if it is fair or necessary to have such wide disparity between the haves and the have-not around the world,' says Podell .
article_snippet: We all read about the economic inequality between the rich and poor nations, and about the great wealth gap between the rich and poor people within nations, but until you actually see people – one third of the world, in fact – trying to manage to live on less than two dollars a day, it does not hit home. '
article_snippet: Unless you are there, it is almost impossible for us to imagine what it is like to have to provide shelter, food, clothing, medical care, and all the other necessities of life on two dollars a day.' '
article_snippet: The main differences I observed were that people in the very poor countries were far more able to get along on less than citizens of the rich countries ever could.'