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Poverty Overview http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview
“There has been marked progress on reducing poverty over the past decades. The world attained the first Millennium Development Goal target—to cut the 1990 poverty rate in half by 2015—five years ahead of schedule, in 2010.”
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976
“The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis.”
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