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poverty reduction  

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  • One of the most urgent global development challenges is the continued existence of widespread poverty. A recent estimate suggests that in 2001 there were 2.73 billion people in the world living on less than US$2 per day. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Poverty Reduction]

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