How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
A new assessment is made of the developing world’s progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard there were 1.1 billion poor people in 2001—almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. During that period the number of poor people declined by more than 400 million in China, though half...
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World Bank
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/17559699/worlds-poorest-fared-early-1980s http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16461 |