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Your feedback is welcome and encouraged. Post your thoughts below and see what other OneWorld readers have to say. If you are commenting on a particular article, please mention that in your post. © Organisation des Nations Unies / DPI Here are some points to ponder on current efforts to make povety history:

• Do you think having benchmarks for reducing poverty will help to alleviate it? What will happen if countries don’t meet these goals?
• Is there enough serious discussion about income inequality and its role in exacerbating poverty?
• To what degree do you think limited aid, unfair trading practices, and/or debt burdens keep countries locked in cycles of poverty?
• Besides the above, what are other root causes of poverty that may not have received attention?
• How effective do you think overseas development assistance is, or can be? What are the best ways to ensure that local communities will benefit from it?
• How can the energy from the global campaigns against poverty be harnessed to benefit the world’s poor?
• Many world leaders talk about the links between poverty and global security, but do you think they have acted on it?