LAST week’s UN summit of world leaders was widely portrayed as a failure for not making progress on reform of the UN and nuclear non-proliferation. But the leaders – and especially their delegates, who did the heavy lifting – can at least feel good about finally getting everyone behind the drive to help the world’s poorest nations.
What happened last week may not look like much: the UN’s member states reaffirmed their commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (see “Will we meet our pledge to end world poverty?”) and encouraged rich nations to meet their pledges to increase international development aid…
