Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report

Dec 18, 2012

Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report

New Geography: Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report

There has been a substantial reduction in both the extreme poverty rate and the number of people living in extreme poverty since the early 1980s, according to information from the World Bank poverty database. The World Bank maintains data on developing world nations, which include both low income and middle income nations. The analysis below summarizes developing world (low and middle income nations) poverty trends from 1981 to the latest available year, 2008 (Table and Figure 1).

The article also includes this graph:

Go to the article for several interesting nuances in how poverty has changed.

Posted at 09:30 AM in Africa, Economic Development, Human Progress, International Affairs, Poverty, Trends: Economic | Permalink

Tags: Africa, China, developing nations, developing world, extreme poverty, global poverty, human progress, India, world bank

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