Reflecting on the World Bank’s 60 years of service, The Bank president, James D. Wolfensohn, declared “the past year has brought with it signs of hope and progress, but it has also brought signs of concern in the fights against poverty.”
 
It is, he says, a time for everyone to recommit to delivering the Millennium Development Goals – international targets for reducing poverty and improving services for the poor by 2015.
 
Failure to meet these targets would mean the world’s poor would be left even further behind, with our children left to face the consequences.