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This is not poverty. It is "extreme poverty", very different thing.
by fghtr 8y ago
This is not poverty. It is "extreme poverty", very different thing.
- carapace 8y agoThe trend is general: the tide is rising and lifting all boats. > We are living through a period of rapid global poverty reduction. According to recent estimates, high, sustained growth across most of the developing world has helped nearly half a billion people escape $1.25-a-day poverty between 2005 and 2010. Never before have so many people been lifted out of poverty over such a brief period. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/two-trends-in-global-poverty/ https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/two-trends-in-global-pove... 500,000,000 people, 5 years.