Mixed report card on poverty eradication

Prof John Wong of the East Asian Institute at NUS reviewed the anti-poverty drive by the United Nations, and pointed out that while the 2014/15 Global Monitoring Report confirmed that the first goal of cutting extreme poverty in half by this year had been achieved ahead of time in 2010, developed economies still face new forms of poverty.

• The Straits Times, 10 October 2015, Opinion, pA48