Weekly Report - 3 August 2004

SOCIAL | Rolling back poverty. The number of people living in conditions of extreme poverty in Mexico has been reduced between 2000-02 from 24.2% to 20.3%. This emerged from a study released last week by the World Bank. The number of those living below the standard poverty line, however, fell less: from 53.7% to 51.7%. In other words, more than half of Mexico ´s population is still poor.