Which of the following descriptions is most characteristic of the world's poorest people?
A) On her way to high school, a young girl walks along a path at the edge of a rice field.
B) Filling a pot with water from a community water reserve, a mother prepares to make a meal of rice and fish, barely enough to feed her husband and two children.
C) A thin man in his 80s, smoking a cigarette, makes his way to cast a ballot in a national election.
D) In a large city, a 12 year-old boy sits under a stack of tin he calls home, unable to read the nearby billboards.
D
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