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Third World poverty is on the run
2013-03-22 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Here's a forecast that brought me up short this week. Within 20 years, on present trends, dire poverty will have been eliminated in Bangladesh -- and others among the world's poorest countries. It seems incredible. The South Asian nation -- the most densely populated sizeable country on earth -- had long been written off. But the prediction is based on exhaustive, if pioneering, Oxford University research and backed up by other authoritative reports. In a study published this month, covering...
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