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This video explores poverty traps — factors that keep countries poor despite global progress in reducing extreme poverty. It warns that poverty could become concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, a region the World Bank sees as crucial to its future. Persistent poverty is often due to rapid population growth outpacing economic development and weak support systems for those near the poverty line. Key poverty traps include conflict (affecting more than 40% of the poor), unfavourable geography (e.g. landlocked countries), long-term state failure, the resource curse and the lasting effects of colonisation, which have disrupted societies and entrenched inequality.