Born Equal: How reducing inequality could give our children a better future published by Save the Children (2012).
“For more than half a century many people in the development sector have fought to alleviate the most extreme poverty and deprivation. The efforts of multilateral and bilateral donors as well as nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) have been focused on helping the world’s poorest people to access the basic goods and services for survival – food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, and education.
One of the highlights of the fight against poverty took place in 2000 at the Millennium Summit, when world leaders laid the foundations for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This eight-goal framework is aimed at eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, reducing child mortality and promoting gender equality and women empowerment, among other goals, by 2015…”
