Poverty will worsen over next decade in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sub-Saharan Africa will account for half of the world's poor by
2015 - up from 27% in 1999 despite bold economic recovery plans,
a recently released study has estimated. The study, conducted by
the independent South African Institute of Race Relations
(SAIRR) concluded that sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) "will get sig-
nificantly poorer during a time period that will see global pov-
erty reduced by a third."
"The number of people living on less than a dollar a day glob-
ally would fall to 810 million from 1.17 billion by 2015"; but
"in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the opposite will happen". "From
241 million people living on less than a dollar a day in 1990
that figure increased to 315 million in 1999 and is set to reach
over 400 million by 2015," according to the SAIRR report. (SABC
News 11/02/04)
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