Some have calculated that, with current development trends remaining the norm, poverty will be eradicated in something like 70 or more years.
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.
At the People’s Health Movement (PHM), we consider ourselves to be MDG-skeptics. 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.
For the full version of this piece, go to
ARE YOU MDGS-SKEPTIC? I AM <http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/10/31/social-determinants-of-health/are-you-mdgs-skeptic-i-am/>
Claudio
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Claudio Schuftan
mailto:cschuftan@phmovement.org