Disability, poverty and development
Disability & Poverty Box 1: The International Development Targets The UK Government is committed to a set of internationally agreed development targets: Economic Well-being a reduction by one-half in the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 Human and Social Development universal primary education in all countries by 2015
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