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Controversy over World Bank trade & poverty estimates
December 19, 2005
Three years ago the World Bank said that freeing international trade of all barriers and subsidies would lift 320 million people above the $2 a day poverty line by 2015. But new World Bank projections emphasizing $1 a day poverty and based on new data and methods put the number at just 32 million pe...
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Saving Debt Relief From Itself
April 23, 2004
Whatever happened to debt relief for the world's poorest countries? It's back.