A U.N. focus on poverty.

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    • Subject Terms:
      POVERTY; UNITED Nations; CONFERENCES & conventions
    • Abstract:
      Describes the United Nations summit on social development in March 1995 which called for a new moral consensus on poverty. Attendance of grassroots organizers, microcredit officers and other nongovernment people; UN conferences; Argument over the merits of the wording `extreme poverty' versus `abject poverty'; Solutions to problems at NGO sessions; Hillary Clinton's speech on the importance of education for girls.