Monday, March 25, 2013

Poverty levels in East Africa diminishing rapidly - more join the new global "middle class"

African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian

A raft of trickle-down economic policies adopted by East African governments to fight poverty seems to be bearing fruit with new global data showing that poverty levels in the region have significantly dropped.

The UN said in the Human Development Report (HDR) 2013 released last week that poverty reduction drivers in developing countries exceeded expectations, helping uplift hundreds of millions of the

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