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Opening Ceremony Panel Takes Stock of Progress, Challenges for Reducing Poverty and Hunger

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Pete Shelton

Khalid Malik, reading a statement on behalf of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, declared “(o)ur global scorecard is mixed. The proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day has fallen, and we remain on track to meet the MDG target of halving extreme poverty. But progress has been uneven, and some regions [...]

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