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Billionaire Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. Gates, the world's richest man, said that by 2035 no nation will be as poor as any of the 35 that the World Bank now classifies as low-income, even adjusting for inflation. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Billionaire Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. Gates, the world's richest man, said that by 2035 no nation will be as poor as any of the 35 that the World Bank now classifies as low-income, even adjusting for inflation. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images