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BELGRADE - Under the slogan "Stop poverty in all its forms" is marked the International Day Against Poverty. Almost two billion people in the world live in poverty.

One in three Greeks were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2015, just below Romania (37.3 percent) and Bulgaria (41.3 percent), according to data released Monday by the European Union's statistical agency, while Greece also showed the highest increase in the risk rate, which grew from 28.1 percent in 2008 to 35.7 percent in 2015, or 7.6 percent.

More than forty percent of children in Bulgaria are facing a risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to national statistics published ahead of the world anti-poverty day.

The government approved the additional expenses on the budget of the Ministry of Foreign affairs for 2016 for the purpose of paying the first Bulgarian installment to the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, reported the press centre of the Council of Ministers.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sept. 26 said the European Union needed to establish migrant deals with African countries such as Egypt and Tunisia along the lines of the agreement it already has with Turkey. 

According to the newly-released income and living conditions survey of the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK), the rich have become richer while the poor have become poorer.  

Turkey's richest 20 percent have a share of 46.5 percent of the national income, up from 45.9 percent last year. The share of the poorest 20 percent has fallen from 6.2 percent to 6.1 percent.  

Over 34% of Bulgarians live in dire straits.

Given a poverty threshold of BGN 325, 1.5 million people or 22% of the population were below this level, showed statistical data about the indicators on poverty and social inclusion for 2015.

Compared to the previous year, the poverty threshold increased by 0.6% and the relative share of the pour population rose by 0.2%.

A new report from the Bahçe?ehir University Center for Economic and Social Research (BETAM) has revealed that in 2014 over 7 million children lived in households which suffered from severe material deprivation in Turkey. 

Turkey ranks bottom out of 41 countries for child inequality in health and life satisfaction, according to a recent study by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) measuring disparities between middle and low-income children. 

The poverty rate in Serbia in the period from 2013 to 2015 went down 0.5 percent.

This was said by World Bank (WB) officials on Friday while presenting the organization's latest South East Europe Regular Economic Report.