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WS MoreOrLess: Millennium Development Goals
Have the eight goals for addressing extreme poverty set by the UN made a difference?
Fifteen years ago at the Millennium Summit the United Nations set eight goals for addressing extreme poverty. They became known as the Millennium Development Goals. A deadline of 2015 was set to achieve what the UN said were 鈥榪uantified targets鈥� 鈥� so how did we do?
We find that in many cases the targets are incredibly difficult to quantify and that progress in some areas might not be all it seems.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics around us.
