What do U.S. President Barack Obama, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, and many civil society groups around the globe have in common? A shared conviction that extreme poverty can be ended — within two decades.
Turning that dream into a reality for the 1.4 billion people still living on less than $1.25 a day requires the engagement of the U.S. development community as well as the leadership of the U.S. government in the post-2015 process.