Africa remains poorest region

NEW YORK: The dramatic lurch of hundreds of millions of people from poverty since the millennium began has not resulted in a truly global middle class, a new report says.Instead, the improvement in living conditions for almost 700 million people has been a step forward from the desperate existence of

By our correspondents
July 10, 2015
NEW YORK: The dramatic lurch of hundreds of millions of people from poverty since the millennium began has not resulted in a truly global middle class, a new report says.
Instead, the improvement in living conditions for almost 700 million people has been a step forward from the desperate existence of $2 or less a day into a low-income world of living on $2 to $10 daily, the Pew Research Centre says.