The U.N.'s Rundown Of Some Of The World's Biggest Problems (NPR)

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What are the biggest social and economic problems the world faces today? And how close are we to ending them?

Casey Dunning, senior policy analyst for aid effectiveness at the Center for Global Development, a think tank for international issues, thinks the data does an "admirable job of laying out the challenges that face us. "But," she says, "it doesn't tell us how to make progress on those challenges."

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