Let’s do our part to make poverty history

IN September 2000, world leaders met at the United Nations to sign a historic deal to make the worst forms of global poverty history before the year 2015.

Ten years on from this Millennium Declaration, the economic crisis, which started in the richest countries, has spread throughout the world.

Developing countries – those least responsible for the crisis – are bearing the brunt of its impact, pushing millions of people into the poverty trap.