Living on less than $2 a day feels like an impossibility but it happens to be a reality for around 558 million people in our world today. It means approximately 7.7 per cent of the global population is living in extreme poverty - commonly understood as surviving on just $1.90 a day or less. Most of those are in the global south.
Twenty years ago that fig…
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