It is perhaps as dismal a tale as it gets. As many people are stricken by poverty today as were 30 years ago, while in many parts of the world, more people are hungry now than there have ever been. That’s the message from two reports released independently of each other this week, from the World Bank and the non-profit International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
However, underlying even that bleak message is a more disconcerting one – that despite decades of trying, scientists and development groups still can’t agree on the true scale of global poverty and hunger.
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