Can we finally end the scourge of world poverty? Yes, we can

This crisis, however, is making us think for ourselves, and think in new ways. There is real anger, not only at the criminal greed of senior bankers, but at the whole system which promised to deliver eternal growth, and then abruptly fell apart and plunged us towards depression

DO we really want to make world poverty history? All decent people, of course, would say that they do.

So we contribute to Goal or St Vincent de Paul, or even do some voluntary work at home or abroad. At the very least, we nod in agreement over our Christmas pints when Bob Geldof urges us to “feed the world”, and somehow feel slightly better about our planet, and ourselves, as a result.