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World Bank president calls for end to poverty by 2030

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The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim has described extreme poverty as "the defining moral issue of our time" and hopes a new World Bank Group strategy will help to end poverty by 2030.
More than a billion people in the world live on less than $1.25 per day, with frequent natural disasters and global economic crises pushing the neediest people further below the poverty line.

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Can India's expected bumper harvest improve wider economy?

6 October 2013 Last updated at 08:53 BST

Harvest begins in most of India in October raising hopes that this year's good monsoon will mean abundant crops.

For a nation of more than 100 million farmers, the health of the countryside is still crucial to the wellbeing of the wider economy.
It is hoped the autumn harvest will bring respite for India's economy which has been battered by high food prices and slowing growth.
Sameer Hashmi reports from rural Maharashtra

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