Questionable figures of another sort are to be found in reports on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals a series of targets on poverty reduction and other measures of well-being.
"Reducing the incidence of hunger worldwide will greatly improve the chances of meeting the MDGs related to poverty reduction, education, child mortality, maternal health and disease," he said.
Western economists may tout foreign direct investment and global- isation as the reasons for China's poverty reduction.
Even in a sluggish global economy, developing countries can do much on their own to promote growth and poverty reduction.
World leaders endorsed the poverty reduction target as the centerpiece of the Millennium Development Goals adopted last year at a United Nations summit.
Many countries, especially in Africa and Latin America, are still not making strong inroads into poverty reduction, while progress on human development indicators in South Asia has been insufficient.
The real question is thus not whether poverty has fallen but whether the chavez government has been particularly effective at converting this period of economic growth into poverty reduction.
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