With the rapidly growing population, 5 percent annual growth is needed simply to keep the number of poor from rising. Halving severe poverty by 2015 will require annual growth of more than 7 ...

19th, 20th, and 21st century African American literature and culture; 20th and 21st century Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literature; 19th, 20th, and 21st century American literature; ...

In 2000, the World Bank Group (WBG) published Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? which described African development challenges and proposed wide-ranging reforms to transition from poverty to ...