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Understanding Poverty
More than one billion people worldwide still live in extreme poverty, a state of affairs that is morally unacceptable given the resources and technology we have available today.
- More than one billion people worldwide still live in extreme poverty, a state of affairs that is morally unacceptable given the resources and technology we have available today. At the same time, rising inequality and social exclusion seems to accompany rising prosperity in many countries.
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