Key problems for meeting MDGs

Some 140 world leaders on Monday kicked off a three-day high-level meeting at the headquarters of the United Nations to accelerate the implementation of UN anti-poverty goals, or the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Education in poor countries hurt by financial crisis

As world leaders meet this week to review a U.N. bid to cut poverty and hunger by 2015, the Global Campaign for Education warned that the financial crisis had halted improvements in education for children in impoverished countries.

Progress in the UN Millennium Development Goals

Financially-strapped rich countries will call for a rethink of strategies to make sure their aid funds are not wasted when world leaders meet this week to discuss U.N. goals to tackle global poverty. The eight goals are meant to be achieved by 2015.

Proportion below extreme poverty line

How far from the Millennium Goals