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It is estimated that an additional $50 billion in aid per annum will be required if we are to achieve the MDGs by 2015.
In 1970, 22 of the world’s richest countries pledged to spend 0.7% of their national income on aid. 34 years later, only 5 countries have kept that promise.
The three richest people in the world control more wealth than all 600 million people living in the world's poorest countries
800 million people go to bed hungry every day. (www.fao.org)
Every year nearly 11million children die before their fifth birthday.
UNESCO say in the 2007 Global Monitoring Report, that Universal primary education would cost $11 billion a year … that's half what Americans spend on ice cream.
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