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MDG's Report:
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lot has been achieved and significant strides have been made, however some
impediments to reaching all the MDGs by 2015 remain. The 2012 report spells out
that recent natural disasters and the global financial crisis has slowed
progress and that inequality remains. A particular area of concern includes the
slow decrease in levels of vulnerable employment, defined as the share of
unpaid family workers and own-account workers in total employment.
Lastly, and
perhaps most concerning is the fact that hunger remains a global challenge. The
most recent FAO estimate of undernourishment set the mark at 850 million living
in hunger in the world in the 2006/08 period, 15.5 per cent of the world
population. Additionally, progress has also been slow in reducing child
under-nutrition, with close to a third of children in Southern Asia deemed
underweight in 2010.