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About "No Poverty"
Facts and Figures from The UN:
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836 million people still live in extreme poverty
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About one in five persons in developing regions lives on less than $1.25 per day
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The overwhelming majority of people living on less than $1.25 a day belong to two regions: Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
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High poverty rates are often found in small, fragile and conflict-affected countries
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One in four children under age five in the world has inadequate height for his or her age
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Every day in 2014, 42,000 people had to abandon their homes to seek protection due to conflict
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