World Bank has hinted that there is new opportunity to eradicate poverty globally by the end of next decade. World Bank President Jim Young Kim has claims the signs of such recovery in the global economy meant there was now an 'opportunity to create a world free from the stain of poverty' by 2030.
Sources say that the World Bank's upbeat projections, defining extreme poverty as the 1.3 billion people living on less than 1.25 dollars per day, come as governments and international institutions prepare to set new targets to update the 15-year Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2000.
According to report, critics accused the World Bank of being 'very unambitious' and obsessed with economic growth rather tackling inequality after the leak of planning documents in March that were heavily focused on free market orthodoxy as the primary solution to global poverty.
But those monitoring the activities of the World Bank said the new rhetoric was not matched by detailed policies to tackle inequality.
Report said that the World Bank officials will meet the UN secretary general this weekend in Madrid to begin the process of agreeing replacements for the Millennium Development Goals, taking advice from a working group chaired by UK prime minister David Cameron.
The Bank's target of eliminating 'extreme' poverty by 2030 does not include the poorest three percent, which it defines as being sporadic rather than structural poverty.
(With inputs from ANI)
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