[Excerpted from Tuesday's FT. The IAFD is the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a UN agency. Their website is http://www.ifad.org]
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The international effort to address extreme povery has lost momentum over the past decade, according to the Ifad's Rural Poverty Report. The slow progress over the past 10 years follows a 20-year period between 1970 and 1990 that saw the fastest and most widespread retreat of poverty, hunger, premature death and illiteracy in history.
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__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com