Official Records - OAS

The number of persons living in extreme poverty, for its part, is said to have fallen by 2 million (from 81 million to 79 million): a decline in percentage terms from 15.4 percent to 14.7 percent. The importance of the progress achieved in this field is even more marked if the 2006 figures are compared with those for 2002, a year in which there ... ................
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