LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 90 percent of people incorrectly believe that extreme poverty has become worse or not changed in the past 25 years, said a study published on Thursday, voicing concerns that public pessimism threatens to stall efforts to end poverty.
In a survey of some 26,000 people across 24 countries, 87 percent of respondents said they believed extreme poverty had not improved over the past two decades - while only one percent knew poverty rates had halved.
