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Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts) Wed Jul 19, 2023, 05:50 PM Jul 2023

(UN) Rapid poverty reduction in some countries, data missing in many others July/2023

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1138577

According to the updated global Multidimensional Poverty Index, revealed on Tuesday by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford, progress was seen in India, where 415 million people exited poverty in just 15 years, as well as in China (69 million) and Indonesia (8 million).

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The fact that India has lifted 415 million people out of poverty in 15 years is astounding good news, who knew?

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