This week Gordon Brown will be in New York to galvanise world leaders into combating what he describes as a growing "development emergency".
This emergency is not a tsunami or a hurricane but poverty.
In 2000, members of the United Nations - all the world's governments - undertook to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
They set targets for improvements in health, education, sanitation and other basic rights.
Eight years on, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - as they are known - look unlikely to be achieved on time.
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