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Bill Gates: '2015 deadline for MDGs likely to be missed'
The UN's Millennium Development Goals are still obtainable but we'll probably miss the 2015 deadline, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said.
Gates, who is also co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told the European Parliament's development committee in Strasbourg, that the increase in aid agreed by the EU's 15 member states would make a huge difference and would achieve the MDGs, not by 2015, but in the next 10 years.
Gates also pointed out the large role government funding plays in development aid. "If you take international aid, private philanthropy, even with our foundation and others, it's less than 2% of what's given to poor countries," he said. "I think we can grow it (philanthropy), and I think it has a special role ... but in terms of the big things, really helping poor countries with health and agriculture, it's government foreign aid," he said.
The Guardian has also reported that he has called for more involvement from the private sector saying that we need more philanthropists - drug companies, banks, mobile phone and mineral companies to get involved.
URL:http://www.raleighinternational.org/news-centre/news/423-bill-gates-mdg-deadline-likely-to-be-missed
Bill Gates: '2015 deadline for MDGs likely to be missed'
The UN's Millennium Development Goals are still obtainable but we'll probably miss the 2015 deadline, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said.
Gates, who is also co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told the European Parliament's development committee in Strasbourg, that the increase in aid agreed by the EU's 15 member states would make a huge difference and would achieve the MDGs, not by 2015, but in the next 10 years.
Gates also pointed out the large role government funding plays in development aid. "If you take international aid, private philanthropy, even with our foundation and others, it's less than 2% of what's given to poor countries," he said. "I think we can grow it (philanthropy), and I think it has a special role ... but in terms of the big things, really helping poor countries with health and agriculture, it's government foreign aid," he said.
The Guardian has also reported that he has called for more involvement from the private sector saying that we need more philanthropists - drug companies, banks, mobile phone and mineral companies to get involved.
URL:http://www.raleighinternational.org/news-centre/news/423-bill-gates-mdg-deadline-likely-to-be-missed
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