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Alternative poverty estimates say progress is too slow to achieve the MDGs by 2015 – Social Watch |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
Press Release
Contrary to repeated mainstream claims that
poverty is diminishing fast in the world, the coverage of the basic needs
required to escape poverty is slowing down and even regressing in many places,
says the 2008 Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) released yesterday in New York by Social
Watch, a network of more than 400 civil society organizations in 70 countries.
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