<div>Human Rights Reader 231</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">THE RESPONSIBILITY OF RICH COUNTRIES FOR THE PERSISTENCE OF IMPOVERISHMENT* AND ILL-BEING** IN POOR COUNTRIES: A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED INDICTMENT OF THE MDGs.  </font></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 116.8pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Some have calculated that, with current development trends remaining the norm, poverty will be eradicated in something like 70 or more years. </font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">1. The easiest and shortest way for this Reader to make its point here is to elevate a number of truisms about the MDGs to the category of ‘mini-iron-laws’. These would add to several truisms about the MDGs presented in previous Readers </span><font size="3">(see </font></font><a href="http://www.humaninfo.org/aviva" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">www.humaninfo.org/aviva</font></span></a><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"> under No.69).</font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> The new mini-iron-laws are the following:</span></font></p>
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<div><a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/2009/12/16/human-rights/the-responsibility-of-rich-countries-for-the-persistence-of-impoverishment-and-ill-being-in-poor-countries-a%20human-rights-based-indictment-of-the-MDGs/" target="_blank">http://www.socialmedicine.org/2009/12/16/human-rights/the-responsibility-of-rich-countries-for-the-persistence-of-impoverishment-and-ill-being-in-poor-countries-a human-rights-based-indictment-of-the-MDGs/</a></div>

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