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Economic Mobility in Developing Countries Has Stalled for the Last 30 Years: WBG Report
May 09, 2018
WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The World Bank issued the following news release:

Generations of poor people in developing countries are trapped in a cycle of poverty determined by their circumstance at birth and unable to ascend the economic ladder due to inequality of opportunity, says the World Bank Group's 'Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World' report, released today.

Mobility has stalled for the last 30 years, says the report, w . . .

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