Where we can found the highest rural poverty rate in the world? The answer is in Sub-Saharan Africa.
A recent publication of IFAD reveals the world rural poverty figures. The Rural Poverty Report 2011 discloses that Sub-Sahara Africa is the only region in the world where the numbers of rural people living in extreme poverty is still on the rise. About 60% of 300 million rural people on the continent live in exterme poverty.
The Rural Poverty Report employs some term related to poverty. Do you familiar with that? Brief terms explained below: (more…)

