Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated?

Abstract

Discusses whether a solution can be found to eliminate extreme poverty. Way that global economic prosperity has placed the world within reach of eliminating extreme poverty; Description of a plan, that appears in the book "The End of Poverty," that would halve the rate of extreme poverty by 2015; Key points of the plan; Comments on poverty in Africa; Need for wealthy countries to pool their resources to help end poverty in less developed countries. INSETS: CROSSROADS FOR POVERTY;CHRONIC POVERTY: RICH WORLD, POOR PEOPLE;GLOBALIZATION, POVERTY AND FOREIGN AID;EXTREME POVERTY: WHERE WE STAND