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Brown backpeddles on global poverty
Brown backpeddles on global poverty
Last Modified: 06 May 2008
By:
Faisal Islam
Prime minister admits targets for reducing global poverty almost a century behind schedule.
He's having problems at home and the global stage isn't giving him much respite either. Gordon Brown has now conceded that some of the targets for tackling global poverty are 85 years behind schedule.
At a meeting of politicians and business people in London, the prime minister said that without an "extraordinary effort", the millennium development goals for Africa wouldn't be met. The 2015 target for establishing primary education for all children could take till 2100 to achieve.
Our economics correspondent, Faisal Islam, reports.
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