Collateral damage or calculated default? the millennium development goals and the politics of globalisation

Abstract

I call on the international community at the highest level - the Heads of State and Government convened at the Millennium Summit - to adopt the target of halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty, and so lifting more than 1 billion people out of it, by 2015. I further urge that no effort be spared to reach this target by that date in every region, and in every country (United Nations 2000b: 12). © 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.