20/04/2011 10:39:42 am
Fewer Poor in the World. According to the just-released Global Monitoring Report, the number of extremely poor in the world continued to fall sharply. Since the reforms for econmic freedom that set globalization off, the fall has been dramatic. Some feared that the financial crisis would put an end to that. But it seems not to have happened. In 1990, 1 800 million in the world were extremely poor, in 2005, 1 400 million were, and the World Bank projects that number to be less than 900 million in 2015.

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