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May 2010

Poverty reduction is a central feature of the international development agenda. A number of key social development objectives were agreed by world leaders at the Millennium Summit, with the goal of significantly reducing poverty by 2015. What then accounts for the persistence of poverty when concern for its reduction has been high on the policy agenda?

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Series UNRISD Publications
Issue 10
Publisher United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Copyright © 2010 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
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