In recent decades, the Developing World's of poverty (the poor as a percentage of the total population) Question 11 options: a) has declined significantly since globalization accelerated in the early 1980s. b) has risen in LDCs generally. c) has declined at about the same rate in the major regions of the developing world. d) declined in the closing decades of the twentieth century but then rose sharply during the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. e) has remained rather static