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Microsoft Bill Gates has said that 2035, there will be almost no poor countries. Today, the World Bank says there are poor countries. Most people who live in them are on or no incomes. Gates said that nearly all these countries will be in the next 20 . All nations in South America, Asia, and America (but possibly not Haiti), and most in Africa will "middle-income nations". He added that when he was , most countries in the world were poor. He thinks that in the next two , most of these countries will be richer.

Mr Gates said some countries will still be . These are North Korea, Haiti and some central African . The good is that: "Nearly 90% will have a higher than India does today." He believes countries will their richer . Countries will have new medicines, better and more people will have the Internet. Gates said China, India, Brazil and Botswana were poor thirty years but are now growing . He said there was still a lot of work to do. More than one billion people are very, very poor, so "it's not to celebrate".

 


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