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China, India set to hit UN poverty reduction targets

AFP, Manila
Asian giants China and India are on track to meet UN poverty reduction targets, but other nations in the region are being left behind, a UN official warned here Thursday.
Thailand and Malaysia were also set to hit most of the UN's 'millenium development goals' set for the year 2015, Kim Hak-Su, executive secretary for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Unescap), told journalists here.
But despite the unprecedented economic growth in Asia since 1990, some countries in the region were being left behind.
Kim said Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, North Korea, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Afghanistan and most Pacific island nations were unlikely
to hit even one of the UN's eight development goals by the 2015 deadline.
UN members committed themselves in 2000 to hit eight development goals by 2015 in a bid to lower poverty worldwide.
These goals include cutting the number of people living in extreme poverty in half, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality sharply, improving maternal health and curbing AIDS, malaria and other major diseases.
The other goals involve ensuring environmental sustainability and helping forge partnerships for development.
With China, India, Malaysia and Thailand each posting more than six percent growth annually, they seem poised to hit most of these develop-
ment goals, particularly regarding poverty levels, said Kim.
Other countries like the Philippines "will meet some goals but not others," said Kim, citing the high educational levels but also the high levels of poverty in this country.
Not all of the poorest countries were being left behind, Kim stated, adding that "Mongolia is poor but they are coming up very well."
Among the characteristics of the countries expected to hit the goals were "good long-term planning and vision," as well as "good incentive measures for foreign investment," Kim said.
These countries also had many "pro-poor policies in the social area," aimed at helping the disadvantaged.