What is the level of poverty in the wealthy state of Brunei Darussalam?

Brunei Darussalam has a laudable ambition of Zero Poverty by 2035, set in 2008,  long before the United Nations even thought of eliminating global poverty through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. During my PhD fieldwork, I was often asked, in reference to Brunei’s Zero Poverty aspiration, whether a country could ever eliminate poverty within …

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