World Bank site on poverty including both overviews and very detailed reports on various issues regarding poverty worldwide, including country-specific information, organizations working to reduce poverty, how poverty levels are assessed and evaluated, and more. Discusses World Bank efforts as well as providing general information about poverty. Includes statistical information as well as more qualitative information such as the Voices of the Poor project (an hour-long documentary in which poor people discuss the experience of poverty, and from which the site includes some quotes).

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August 19, 2010

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David Wilkerson

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