That’s what 600 million in Asia live on – then again 250 million have got out of that situation (although many of those probably only just).
The percentage of people living on $1 a day in South Asia, which includes India and Bangladesh, dropped to 28.4 percent in 2003 from 40.9 percent in 1990, the report said. In East Asia, which includes China, it fell to 14.9 percent from 31.2 percent.
There’s no gender breakdown in those figures, but I suspect women would be significantly over-represented.
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