Life Improved Radically for the Poorest-of-the-Poor in the Past DecadeA World Bank report reveals that progress in reducing poverty is so dramatic that the world has met the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals to cut extreme poverty in half five years before its 2015 deadline: World Bank Report story in the New York Times, March 2012Below are links for World Bank senior economist Charles Kenny, whose new book is titled Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424862 Audio interview with Charles Kenny--2000-2010 was the best decade ever!: http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2010/12/21/the-2000s-were-the-best-decade-ever-development-optimist-charles-kenny/ Return |