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11/03/2004:

"Southern Africa to hold 50% of world's poor"

Sub-Saharan Africa will hold 50% of the world's poor by 2015, an annual South Africa Survey, released by the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), shows.

"Africa will get significantly poorer during a time period that will see global poverty reduced by a third," the SAIRR said in
a statement on Tuesday.

According to the survey the number of people living on less than a dollar a day across the globe would decrease significantly from 1169 million people in 1999 to 810 million in 2015.

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