ACCRA: The World Bank (WB) is optimistic that global poverty is on its way out, President Jim Yong Kim said here on Friday (Saturday in Manila).
This optimism comes because, for the first time in human history, the percentage of people living in extreme poverty has been reduced to 10 percent, relative to 36 percent in 1990.
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