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Reclassification of the poverty line

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The recent revision of the World Bank’s international poverty line, from $1.08 to $1.25 a day, classified an additional 430 million people as living in extreme poverty. Despite this the Bank claims that “we are no less successful in the fight against poverty”. This paper examines the absurdity of this claim.

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