For the first time, less than 10 percent of the world is living in extreme poverty, World Bank says

The World Bank provided some relief from bad news this week with some fresh, positive data: For the first time ever, it estimates that the number of people around the world living in extreme poverty will fall below 10 percent. Using an updated international poverty line of U.S. $1.90 a day, the Bank estimated that global poverty has fallen from […]











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