News: Dramatic Decline In Global Poverty, But Progress Uneven

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Poverty has declined significantly in developing countries over the past twenty years, but progress has been uneven, according to World Development Indicators 2004 (WDI), the World Bank's annual statistical report.The proportion of people living in extreme poverty on less than $1 a day dropped by almost half between 1981 and 2001, from 40 percent to 21 percent of the global population.
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