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Ending extreme poverty and sharing prosperity: progress and policies [1]

The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is likely to fall to under 10 percent of the global population in 2015, according to World Bank projections released, giving fresh evidence that a quarter-century-long sustained reduction in poverty is moving the world closer to the historic goal of ending poverty by 2030. The Bank uses an updated international poverty line of US $1.90 a day, which incorporates new information on differences in the cost of living across countries (the PPP exchange rates). The new line preserves the real purchasing power of the previous line (of $1.25 a day in 2005 prices) in the world’s poorest countries. Using this new line (as well as new country-level data on living standards), the World Bank projects that global poverty will have fallen from 902 million people or 12.8 per cent of the global population in 2012 to 702 million people, or 9.6 per cent of the global population, this year.

Publication Date: 
04/10/2015
Marcio Cruz [2], James Foster [3], Bryce Quillin [4], Philip Schellekens [5]
The World Bank [6]
Tags:
Poverty [7], Rural Poverty [8], Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [9], Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [10], Developing Countries [11], India [12], GDP [13], Health [14], Education [15], Nutrition [16], Child Health [17], Environment [18], Economy [19]

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