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Extreme poverty is defined as a state of poverty in which individuals cannot fulfil one or more of their basic needs (food, shelter and clothing).
More recently, neoliberal definitions have been adopted by international organisations such as the World Bank or the UN, setting extreme poverty at an income below 2 US dollars a day. While the purpose of this international standard is meant to be able to derive statistics, it does not reflect local purchasing power and it has also been used by capitalist organisations to claim that poverty is diminishing thanks to their system by simply changing the cutoff point.[1]
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China
Between 2012 and 2020, China lifted 98.99 million of its citizens out of extreme poverty. The country completed the eradication of extreme poverty in 2021.[2][3]
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