Africa: Helen Clark - Speech At the Interactive Dialogue On Ending Poverty and Hunger

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There has been significant progress over the past fifteen years on getting children into school; reducing infant, child, and maternal deaths; turning the tide on HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB and other key Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets. The focus, funding, and action generated by the MDGs has undoubtedly made a big difference to the lives of many.

But there is a lot of unfinished business from the MDGs. While the target of halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015, measured against 1990 figures, was met by 2010, for many of the billion people living in the other half life has scarcely changed in many respects.

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