You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The bar chart shows the share of poverty of the rural areas in the years 1993 and 2002. The pie chart shows the rural area share and the urban area share of poverty in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The two charts depict

rural

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the rural

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share

of

poverty

during the decade-long period 1993-2002, and the comparative spread in rural vis-à-vis urban areas, specifically in the terminal year 2002. As per the pie chart,

while

rural areas

share

76% of

poverty

, the urban

share

is only 24%. That means the rural populace is thrice as likely to be poor as

urban

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the urban

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population.

This

huge gap is,

however

, not evenly spread across major regions of the world, as shown by the bar graph. In three major regions of the world, namely

Middle

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the Middle

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East & North Africa, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, there is a marginal reduction in

rural

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the rural

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share

of

poverty

during

this

10-year period.

On the contrary

, there is a substantial increase in

poverty

during

this

period in Europe and Central Asia. There is little change in East Asia & Pacific, where rural

poverty

has a whopping 90%

share

. An

honorable

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exception is North America & Caribbean, where the rural

share

was always low but has

further

gone down to just 40%.