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The Thought Show: Millennium Development Goals

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09/07/2015

Millennium Development Goals

BBC World Service - The Thought Show, Millennium Development Goals

More Or Less asks how well we’ve done in reaching the Millennium Development  Goals.

More Or Less  checks out our progress on  the Millennium Development Goals, BBC Trending hears about  sexism in Nigeria and the Why Factor asks why we still like hard cash.

Fifteen years ago at the Millennium Summit the United Nations set eight goals for addressing extreme poverty which became known as the Millennium Development Goals. A deadline of 2015 was set to achieve what the UN said were “quantified target”. More Or Less asks how well we’ve done and finds in many cases progress is very difficult to quantify and in some areas may not be all it seems. 
BBC Trending hears from Florence Warmate and her book club friends in Abuja. Inspired by the Nigerian writer Chimamandra Ngozi Adichie, they sparked a global conversation about everyday sexism. What happened to the HIV positive man who stood in a park in Finland with his eyes closed and asked passers-by if they dared to touch him? And how journalists in Burundi are risking their lives to produce news reports and post them on social media in the midst of a government imposed media blackout.  
In the Why Factor, Mike Williams asks why we still like to use notes and coins despite the increasing popularity of cashless transactions.

Photo: Anti-poverty activists display a protest message pasted on dining plates at a park in Manila, 2007. Credit: Luis Liwanag/AFP/Getty Images

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