{"id":51934,"date":"2015-10-05T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/world_bank_extreme_poverty_to_fall_below_10\/"},"modified":"2015-10-05T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T14:40:08","slug":"world_bank_extreme_poverty_to_fall_below_10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51934","title":{"rendered":"World Bank: Extreme poverty &#39;to fall below 10%&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world&#8217;s population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015.<br \/>\nThe bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty, up from $1.25.<br \/>\nIt forecasts the proportion of the world&#8217;s population in this category to fall from 12.8% in 2012 to 9.6%.<br \/>\nHowever, it said the &#8220;growing concentration of global poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is of great concern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-34440567\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe best story in the world today\u201d\u009d. End of extreme world poverty within sight says World Bank <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/VN2sWeuvrJ\">http:\/\/t.co\/VN2sWeuvrJ<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/HZLtyN9UYQ\">pic.twitter.com\/HZLtyN9UYQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Times of London (@thetimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimes\/status\/651008937769238529\">October 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world&#8217;s population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51934\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,119,593,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-globalization","category-personal-finance","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}