Progress on Global Poverty

Progress on Global Poverty:

In Brazil, the overall extreme poverty rate dropped by 29 percent (from 9 percent in 2005 to 6 percent in 2008). It is now less than half the 1981 figure of 14 percent. South Africa's extreme poverty rate fell by 21 percent (from 17 percent in 2005 to ...

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