UN Advisor Sees Progress In Reaching Goals To End Poverty

Poverty News Blog: UN Advisor Sees Progress In Reaching Goals To End Poverty

The top U.N. advisor pressing for countries to meet U.N. targets for poverty reduction by 2015 said Wednesday there was reason for optimism that the world was inching closer to meeting them.

Jeffery Sachs, director of the U.N. Millennium Project, reported "notable progress" in introducing programs needed to end poverty and hunger.

But he was not prepared to predict whether the goals will be met. ….