According to the World Bank, another 53m people will be pushed into extreme poverty in 2009.

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Not that there will be no poverty in the world but, if the momentum continues, the extreme-poverty rate will be smaller than we can measure.

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"Under most scenarios -- except the most dire -- significant strides in reducing extreme poverty will be achieved by 2030, " the report notes.

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The most ambitious objective, "to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger" by 2015, certainly cannot be accomplished without innovative technology--which, in turn, cannot be developed when bans and excessive regulatory barriers impede innovation.

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