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Despite growth, one in 10 Asians live in extreme poverty [1]

Some 400 million people, a tenth of Asia Pacific's population, live on less than $1.90 a day - the global definition of extreme poverty - despite the region's impressive economic growth, the United

Publication Date: 
30/03/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST) [2]
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Poverty [3], Asia [4], Economic Development [5], Asian Development Bank (ADB) [6], Health [7], Education [8]

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