Persée http://www.persee.fr Stephan Thernstrom, The other Bostonians. Poverty and progress in the American

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FOREWORD Although the Asian and Pacific region as a whole is on its way to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), progress by many countries individually is still slow and performance on some targets, particularly the health-related ones, including water and sanitation, is unsatisfactory. In terms of absolute numbers, the scale of deprivation faced by the Asian and Pacific region is daunting. It accounts for the major share

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• Development
• Poverty
• Socioeconomics
• Economics
• Sanitation
• International development
• Drinking water
• Reproductive health
• Water supply and sanitation in Benin
• Public health
• Millennium Development Goals
• Health