Aid policy: ten facts and figures from the 2011 Millennium Development Goals Report

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The poverty reduction goal can be met by 2015, with the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1.25 a day expected to fall below 900 million (from 1.8 billion in 1990).
Sub-Saharan Africa has made the greatest strides in primary school enrolment, from 58 per cent in 1999 to 76 per cent in 2009; however, 32 million children are still out of school in the region, almost half the global total of 67 million.
The number of women in parliament is at a record high – 19.3...

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