Thursday, July 24, 2014

More than 2.2 billion people ‘poor or near-poor’

TOKYO, July 24- More than 2.2 billion people are “poor or near poor”, with financial crises, natural disasters, soaring food prices and violent conflicts threatening to exacerbate the problem, a United Nations report said Thursday. While poverty is in decline worldwide, growing inequality and “structural vulnerabilities” remain a serious threat, said the report by the […]

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