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Report: Errant Pessimism About Poverty Threatens to Stall Efforts to Help

Almost 90 percent of people incorrectly believe that extreme poverty has become worse or not changed in the past 25 years, said a study published Thursday, voicing concerns that public pessimism threatens to stall efforts to end poverty. In a survey of 26,000 people across 24 countries, 87 percent of respondents said they believed extreme poverty had not improved over the past two decades, while only 1 percent knew poverty rates had halved. Since 1990, more than 1 billion people have...

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