Can We Eliminate Extreme Poverty By 2030?

Can We Eliminate Extreme Poverty By 2030? / Picture: © Vindobona.org

The success of Western Europe and North America over the 19th and 20th Centuries in reducing absolute poverty is well-known, as is the success of China and India in more recent times. We have also seen encouraging signs of faster progress against poverty in much of Africa since the late 1990s. The proportion of the world’s population living below (say) $1-a-day has fallen from over…