LATER this month, the world’s leaders meet at a special UN summit to assess their track record on achieving a set of goals agreed 13 years ago.

Despite problems in the way of helping the poor, there are reasons to hope, writes Bill Gates

The tide could be beginning to turn in the battle to ease the plight of the one billion chronically hungry people throughout the world, writes Denis Lucey.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen will travel to New York today to join other international leaders for a high-level United Nations meeting on world poverty.