Eliminating World Poverty: Building Our Common Future

‘Eliminating World Poverty: Building Our Common Future’ presents a shift in the way the United Kingdom delivers development aid, refocusing resources onto fragile countries and for the first time treating security and justice as a basic service alongside health, education, water and sanitation. Fifty per cent of new bilateral funding will be committed to fragile countries. Key announcements in this paper include a renewed commitment to 0.7 percent of UK Gross National Income for international development, meaning a contribution of £9 billion per year by 2013 and measures to reduce maternal mortality rates and potentially save the lives of six million mothers and babies by 2015.

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