<div><span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><p><b><br></b></p><p> Some have calculated that, with current development trends</p>
<p> remaining the norm, poverty will be eradicated in something</p><p> like 70 or more years.</p>
<p>It is fitting to devote this article to the MDGs since the UN just deliberated over them thirty days ago as we reached the 2/3 mark to 2015.</p><p>At the People’s Health Movement (PHM), we consider ourselves to be<span style="font-style:italic">MDG-skeptics.</span> For long now, we actually have been trying to create awareness of the MDGs limitations and have therein been playing a veritable devil’s advocate role.</p>
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</span><p></p><p>Claudio</p></div>