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• The prognosis for poverty reduction is gloomy
• Water and sanitation are the most neglected issues
• Targets risk labelling countries as failures
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A race to prevent disaster
As world leaders gather in New York this week to take stock of efforts to eliminate poverty, they have been joined by high-profile guests who a few years ago would have been unexpected, uninvited and unloved.
Severe attention deficit
Water and sanitation are two of the most pressing problems worldwide, but they rarely receive the attention awarded to other development issues such as health, education and industrialisation.
Africa is given a raw deal again
This week’s United Nations summit has been called to assess progress towards the millennium development goals (MDGs), a list of targets for the developing world that spreads outwards in complexity from a core group of aims.
Companies with solutions
A basic requirement of development is having enough to eat. As food prices rise, progress in many countries is being threatened.
Hard-nosed benefits for a different kind of investor
From the branches of a tree in a nursery in Ghana’s Ashanti region hangs a collection of black polythene bags, each containing the seeds of the allenblackia tree.
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