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Extreme Poverty is still a Global Issue

Visualizing the population still living below the International Poverty Line

There has been an immense creation of global wealth by the spread of an open market economy with no trade barriers in the last few decades. While most of us here in the West live comfortable lives with ample opportunities for wealth creation, millions of people in the…

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