From Guardian Unlimited:
Spectacular growth in China and India has pushed the number of people around the world living on less than a dollar a day below the 1 billion level, but masks entrenched poverty in Africa and Latin America, the World Bank said yesterday.
Reporting an 80-million drop in extreme poverty in the two years to 2004, the Bank said the improvement was entirely due to the rapid expansion in Asia’s two most populous countries….[Full Text]
