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... literacy rate jumped from 73 percent to 91 percent. Notably, the benefits of economic growth were widely shared throughout the population. Incomes of the poorest fifth of the population grew just as fast as average incomes, and poverty rates fell...

Education in Ethiopia: Strengthening the Foundation for Sustainable Progress - Page 5
2005 - 285 pages
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Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work

Deepa Narayan-Parker, Elena E. Glinskaya - Business & Economics - 2007 - 428 pages

...appears to have declined quite significantly over the same period. 3 Survey estimates indicate that the share of the population living below the poverty line fell from nearly 50 per cent in the early 1980s to a little over one-quarter in 1999/2000 (26 per cent according...

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