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Although there has been substantial reduction in Global Poverty, it is marked with great regional difference. Explain with example.

There have been substantial reduction in global poverty, but there are regional disparities as described below -

1. Poverty declined in China and South-East Asian countries as a result of rapid economic growth and huge investments in the development of human resources.
2. In Latin America, the ratio of poverty remained almost the same.
3. In Sub-Saharan Africa, poverty saw an upward trend rather than a downward trend. It rose from 41% in 1981 to 46% in 2001.
4. Poverty has surfaced itself in some of the former socialist countries like Russia, where formerly it was non-existent.
5. In South Asian Countries like India, Nepal, Pakistan we have witnessed a decline but it has been marginal. 

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 1)in japan and china there has been a great decline in poverty rate as a result of huge investments and economical growth

2)in countries of south asia  like india and pakistan the decline has not been rapid

3)in sub saharan counties there has been an inrease in poverty from 41% in 1981 to 46% in 2001

4)in latin america the ratio of poverty remains the same

5)poverty has also resurfaced in russia

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# poverty has decreased in china and southeast asian countries due to massive investmants made in human resource and rapid economic growth. in china, poverty decreased from 606 million in 1981 to 212 millionin 2001.

#in counties of south asia(india, sri lanks, pakistan, nepal, bhutan, bangladesh) the decline has not been as rapid

#poverty in latin aerica has remained fairly stable

#poverty actually increased in countries of sub saharan africa from 41% in 1981 to 46% in 2001.

#poverty has also resurfaced in some of the former socialist countries like russia where it was officially non existent earlier.this is mainly because of the shift to capitalism/

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