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20.6.05
Poverty
Mr. Blair hosts the G8 meetings next week at Gleneagles. It would be difficult to find a more beautiful or luxurious place in which to ponder poverty. This article concerns the views of prominent economist Jeffrey Sachs on the subject. The timing of the first world's response to the third's plight seems especially pointed. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=648256
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