Further fall in extreme poverty forecast for 2015. Extreme poverty in the world is expected to fall again in 2015 to 702 million individuals (9.6% of the world population) compared with 902 million in 2012 (12.8%), according to the latest report from the World Bank. In 1990, 37.1% of the world population (i.e. almost two billion people) were still living in extreme poverty (in other words surviving on less than USD1.90 a day). The World Bank says that the fight against poverty that has been...