Nigeria: Report - Nigeria Overtakes India As World's Poverty Capital

26 June 2018

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of extreme poor as of 2018, a report by the Washington-based Brookings Institution has stated.

The report titled, 'The Start of a New Poverty Narrative,' obtained on the institution's website, pointed out that the Democratic Republic of the Congo could soon take over the number two spot.

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