Conditions improve for world's poorest but children bear greatest burden – UN
by Peter Beaumont from World news | The Guardian on (#4K0H6)
India and Bangladesh drive progress but study identifies vast inequalities between countries and among poor
The UN's key global poverty index has identified that conditions for the world's poorest 40% are improving more quickly than for those just above them.
The positive trend has been identified in the latest assessment of world poverty collected by the UN Development Programme, which quantifies relative impoverishment across the globe by multiple factors.
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