Women and children play a major role in poverty alleviation and are expected to feature prominently in any future development goals, it emerged during debates in Liberia last week.
Following meetings of the UN high-level panel (HLP) on Thursday, Britain's international development secretary, Justine Greening, said there was growing consensus that women and girls "are a core part" of the poverty alleviation framework being discussed in Monrovia.
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