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Are We Really About To End World Poverty?

15/06/2016 GMT

The Inquiry: Are We Really About To End World Poverty?

BBC World Service - The Essential, The Inquiry: Are We Really About To End World Poverty?

Helen Clark, head of the UNDP, explains the global poverty target.

Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Programme, explains the global poverty target.

In this excerpt from The Inquiry, Helen Clark - head of the United Nations Development Programme (and a possible future UN leader) - explains the new global poverty target to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. But the claim that ending poverty is within our grasp is one we’ve heard many times before. Will it be different this time?

Presenter: Linda Yueh

(Image: A homeless boy in poverty. Credit: Shutterstock)

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