Thursday, September 23, 2010

Op-Ed Columnist - Boast, Build and Sell - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Boast, Build and Sell - NYTimes.com

World leaders have flown in first class to the United Nations this week to discuss global poverty over cocktails at the Waldorf Astoria.

The U.N. set eight landmark antipoverty objectives in 2000, so this year’s General Assembly is reviewing how we’re doing after a decade. We’re off-track on most of these Millennium Development Goals, so let me offer three suggestions for how the humanitarian world might do better in framing the fight against poverty:

First, boast more.

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