The World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, while addressing
participants at the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, meeting in New
York on Tuesday April 1st, said five countries, including Nigeria, make up two-thirds of the world's extremely poor people.
“The fact is that two-thirds of the world’s extreme poor are
concentrated in just five countries – India, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh,
and the Democratic Republic of Congo. If you add another five countries — Indonesia, Pakistan, Tanzania,
Ethiopia, and Kenya – the total grows to 80 percent of the extreme
poor.”
“By extremely poor, we mean people living on less than $1.25 a day. And
more than a billion people in the world live on less than that each
day.”
And we are an oil producing country. We need a government that works!
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