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Poverty has been an important social problem from the beginning of humanity and will be till the end of the world. But the rapid change in technology took away the capability of human effort to cover his necessities alone. The people must improve their education, talent and capacity continuously. In this respect, today's globalizing poverty is more concrete and a difficult problem to solve than ever.
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