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Africa Growth Not Enough To Reduce Poverty: World Bank
yahoo.com 10 hours, 17 minutes agoLAGOS (Reuters) - Africa may have enviable economic growth rates by global standards, but they are still not enough to pull its growing population out of poverty, the World Bank said on Thursday. Addressing the media during a visit to Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos, Marcelo Giugale, World Bank Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programmes for Africa, was asked if the continent was growing fast enough to fight dire poverty. "The short answer is 'No'. It's not enough to reduce poverty, not b


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