...has seen its share of world trade slip to just 2.1% in 1998, and where, according to the World Bank, the number of people living on less than a dollar a day rose from 220 million in 1987 to 290 million a decade later ... A new map of the world is being drawn...

...with declining income, life expectancy, and literacy. The UN's millennium development goals of halving the number of people living on less than a dollar a day, of achieving a two-thirds drop in mortality for under-fives, of ensuring universal primary education,...

...MDGs for communicable diseases will be met. Although some other MDGs are on track (the reduction in the number of people living on less than a dollar a day, and the net primary enrollment goal), performance to date on the communicable diseases goals has not...

...historic rapid poverty reduction, especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Between 1990 and 2001, the number of people living on less than a dollar a day fell by about 129 million. Poverty incidence in East Asia dropped from 31 to 12 per cent, while that...

...poorest in the world, while Asian GDP booms. A 2.007 World Bank report states that world poverty, ie, the number of people living on less than a dollar a day, is decreasing, thanks to China and India's economic growth. The problem of Africa is not economic but...

...is more than twice as fast as that in high-income countries. Growth of such magnitude would reduce the number of people living on less than a dollar a day from 1.2 billion in 1990 and 970 million in 2004 to 624 million by 2015. Such aggregate outcomes are...

...children are born into extreme poverty from which they never escape. Because of population growth, the number of people living on less than a dollar a day increased from 1.2 billion in 1987 to 1.3 billion in 1993, even as their share of the population held...