At the current rate of global progress, more than half a billion people will be living in extreme poverty and tens of millions of children will lack schooling resources, UN report says
Without a major effort not only will an estimated 84 million children be out of school in 2030 but approximately 300 million students will lack basic literacy and math skills for success in life. / Photo: AP
The report on progress in achieving 17 wide-ranging UN goals adopted by world leaders in 2015 to improve life for the world's more than 7 billion people said that only 15 percent of some 140 specific targets that experts evaluated are on track to be reached by the end of the decade.it said, and of those 30 percent have either seen no movement at all or regressed including key targets on poverty, hunger and climate.
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