The U.N.'s Millennium Poverty Goal was to reduce the global rate of extreme poverty to 15 percent by 2015, but it will not have much impact on the number of people in poverty.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
The U.N. established a Millennium Poverty Goal of cutting the incidence of extreme global poverty in half by 2015 (from 30 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2015). Even that seemingly modest goal wouldn't greatly decrease the number of people in poverty. The world's population keeps growing by over 80-100 million people a year. By the year 2015, there will be close to 7.2 billion people on this planet. Fifteen percent of that population would still leave over a billion people in extreme global poverty.
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