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Poverty Facts

Most of the poor live now in middle income countries

March 27, 2011 defeatpoverty3 Comments

A new IDS report says that 72% of the world’s poorest 1 billion people live in (so-called) middle income countries … a huge change from 20 years ago when > 90% of the world’s poor lived in low-income countries.  Low-income countries are defined by the World Bank’s definition of < $995 per person GDP (which… Continue reading Most of the poor live now in middle income countries

Poverty Reading List

The Bottom Billion book review

May 20, 2008 defeatpoverty2 Comments

The Bottom Billion: Why The Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It By Paul Collier When a book is recommended by both The Economist (more conservative) AND George Soros (quite liberal), it is bound to be interesting … and this book did not disappoint. Collier is a British economist and former… Continue reading The Bottom Billion book review

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