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Graphic Truth: The Biggest Winners Against Poverty

Graphic Truth: The Biggest Winners Against Poverty
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Over the past thirty odd years, more than a billion people have left poverty, in what is one of the most extraordinary periods of economic and human development in history. Here is a look at the large countries — those with 50m people or more — that lifted the greatest number of their people out of poverty since the early 1990s.

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