World Resources Report 2008 Roots of Resilience: Growing the Wealth of the Poor

World Resources Report 2008 Roots of Resilience: Growing the Wealth of the Poor continues the focus on poverty and the environment. The reality of global poverty is that it is rural and it is persistent: three-quarters of the 2.6 billion people living on less than $2 per day almost 2 billion live in rural areas; that number is virtually unchanged in 20 years.