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October 30, 2008

Fighting Poverty, a Global Challenge

by Patricia Khashayar, MD., Press TV, Iran - Bretton Wood's thinking has totally failed the poor of the world and where the executing institutions need abolishing and replacing with ones that in the future have successful outcomes. This is where a new system should be created and totally focused on social relief and justice, not pandering to the calls of the profit driven private sector capitalist market that permeates the present world.

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