Millions of people across the world are on the verge of plunging into poverty and unemployment, leading to social and political unrest, mainly in developing countries like India and Brazil, UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon warned Tuesday in the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) report.
“We have made important progress in this effort (achieving the MDGs), and have many successes on which to build. But we have been moving too slowly to meet our goals, and today we face a global economic crisis whose full repercussions have yet to be felt. At the very least, it will throw us off course, particularly in developing countries,” Ban said in the forward to the report.
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