Mar 30, 2017 ... At the last count (2011 in India; 2013 in China) India had 268m paupers and  China just 25m. Both countries are much more populous than they were 30 years  ago. ... poor people live in the countryside, and just over half of them live in ... little  to cut deep poverty—and, anyway, have been followed by busts.
Mar 25, 2016 ... "Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half. Boys and girls are  enrolling in primary school at nearly equal rates, and there are ...
Mar 27, 2017 ... Accordingly, the share of people in extreme poverty has decreased ... During the  first half of the last century, the growth of the world .... On every day in the last 25  years there could have been a .... While the share of extremely poor people has  fallen faster than ever before in history over the last 30 years, the ...
The World Bank Group is committed to fighting poverty in all its dimensions. We  use the latest evidence and analysis to help governments develop sound policies  ... There has been marked progress on reducing poverty over the past decades.  ... Goal target—to cut the 1990 poverty rate in half by 2015—five years ahead of ...
Jan 2, 2018 ... We've made remarkable progress on extreme poverty, but over ten percent of the  ... on less than $1.90 per day—has plummeted in the past 30 years. In 1990 the  UN set a goal to cut the world's poverty rate in half by 2015, and we ... The  working-age population in China is on the decline, and Africa has the ...
Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half.