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Moldova is the fastest growing economy in Europe, but is also one of Europe's poorest countries, with the lowest GDP (nominal) per capita of any European state. Monaco has the highest GDP (nominal) per capita of any European state. Russia is the largest transcontinental European economy and will remain so until at least 2030.
The first table lists countries by the percentage of their population with an income of less than $2.15 (the extreme poverty line), $3.65 and $6.85 US dollars a day in 2017 international PPP prices. The data is from the most recent year available from the World Bank API. [1] [2] [3]
Poverty in Italy deals with the level of poverty and homelessness in the Western European country of Italy. The poverty rate in Italy has increased since the 2008 financial crisis . [ 1 ] In 2017, the number of people living in " absolute poverty " rose to 5.1 million, which was the highest in 12 years. [ 2 ]
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, first published in 2012, is a book by economists Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, who jointly received the 2024 Nobel Economics Prize (alongside Simon Johnson) for their contribution in comparative studies of prosperity between nations.
The Labour leader will use a speech to expand on his vision for government of securing the highest sustained growth in the G7.
On May 18, 2014, the English edition reached number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for best selling hardcover nonfiction [3] and became the greatest sales success ever of academic publisher Harvard University Press. [4] As of January 2015, the book had sold 1.5 million copies in French, English, German, Chinese, and Spanish. [5]
The number of people living in relative poverty, across the country, tends to vary from state to state, e.g. in California (in 2018), 4.66 million people lived in poverty versus in Minnesota with about 456,000 people that lived in poverty. [60] The causes of relative poverty in the US are complex and revolve around the following:
For instance, those making more than a monthly household income of 901 euros made up only 15.9% of the food insecure. [159] After the Portuguese financial crisis that began in 2010, food insecurity escalated and notably affected those in poorer regions in Portugal—such as Alentejo and Algarve. In the Algarve region, total food insecurity ...