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Can Kenya defeat poverty by 2030? What the global clock indicates
A section of Mukuru kwa Reuben slum in Nairobi. One of the Millennium Development Goals is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Sub-Sahara Africa is yet to meet the goal. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Like other African countries emerging from colonial rule, Kenya’s independence leadership proclaimed a development focus on the elimination of three ills: poverty, ignorance and disease.
The last two have been addressed, with mixed success, through program or project-specific education and health initiatives over time. But poverty is more complex; its reduction, or eradication, is a higher-order task.
