In-Depth

Efforts to end extreme poverty worldwide by the year 2015 have so far been successful in some regions and less so in others. Global policies on aid, trade, and debt will play key roles in determining success over the next ten years.

While development aid is often vital for combatting poverty, is it really being invested in local communities to change the circumstances of the poor? This article examines where aid goes and proposed solutions for making it more effective.

The world now has the resources to end extreme poverty, say many of those working in the field around the world--it is only the political will that is lacking. Anti-poverty campaigners have formed vast coalitions in every region of the world to tell their leaders to finally "make poverty history."