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Conflicts, 4th period
September 14, 2005
World leaders to review steps toward antipoverty goals
The U.N. meeting will hear discouraging news on the targets adopted five years ago. Child mortality still plagues Africa.
By Shashank Bengali
Inquirer Washington Bureau
Tue, Sep. 13, 2005
Summary:
The Article is about the Millennium Development Goals, which are a set of antipoverty targets. There is to be a meeting of leaders from more than 170 different countries in New York where they will review the progress on the goals. Problems like, fighting hunger, illiteracy, diseases, gender inequality, and more are major problems throughout the world which the Millennium Development Goals are supposed to correct, so far however, and not much has changed besides a small number of areas. For instance, in Africa the amount of people living on less than $1 a day has risen 11.5 percent higher than it was in 1981. There are a few improvements in......
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