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UN panel calls for end to extreme poverty by 2030

The 27-member panel delivered the report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, calling it a "bold and practical" proposal with 12 goals

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A high-level UN panel is recommending ambitious plan to tackle the world's major challenges from climate change to equality for women and good government, with a key goal of ending extreme poverty everywhere by 2030.

The 27-member panel, co-chaired by the leaders of Indonesia, Liberia and Britain, delivered the report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today, calling it a "bold and practical" proposal with 12 goals.

"Our vision and our responsibility are to end extreme poverty in all its forms in the context of sustainable development and to have in place the building blocks of sustained prosperity for all," the panel said.

Ban appointed the panel to recommend a new development agenda after the UN Millennium Development Goals to combat poverty expire in 2015.

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First Published: May 31 2013 | 1:43 AM IST

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