2012-03-09 16:02:44

UN chief notes gains in fighting world poverty


(March 09, 2012) The world has been able to meet some of the United Nations goals of reducing poverty and raising living standards in developing nations, though some regions like sub-Saharan Africa are not reaping many benefits, the U.N. chief said on Thursday. There has been "broad progress" in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters. The goals are targets adopted by world leaders at the United Nations in 2000 to slash poverty, hunger and disease in poor countries by 2015. Earlier this week the United Nations announced that developing nations have already achieved their 2015 goal of drastically reducing the number of people without regular access to safer drinking water, though much of the credit lies with India and China. Last week the World Bank said developing countries appear to have already met the U.N. goal of halving extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries by 2015. That was also mainly due to China's economic boom. Ban also cited progress in other areas, such as the fight against tuberculosis and malaria, parity in primary school education between boys and girls and improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.








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