The “final final” draft of the AAA being circulated today includes an increase of almost 50% in the world poverty estimates, from one billion in yesterday’s draft to 1.4 billion people in today’s document.
That increase in the poverty figures might be a reaction to the civil society groups pointing to the obvious discrepancy of the AAA figures with the latest World Bank estimates. But civil society lobbying was not succesfull in reintroducing the date of 2015 as the target for meeting the MDGs, a reference that was there in previous drafts but was ommitted in the current ones, maybe as an indirect recognition that aid has not been enough to meet the goals to which the presidents committed themselves solemnly in 2000.
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