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Fifteen years ago at the Millennium Summit the United Nations set eight goals for addressing extreme poverty which became known as the Millennium Development Goals. A deadline of 2015 was set to achieve what the UN said were 鈥渜uantified target鈥�. More Or Less asks how well we鈥檝e done and finds in many cases progress is very difficult to quantify and in some areas may not be all it seems.
大象传媒 Trending hears from Florence Warmate and her book club friends in Abuja. Inspired by the Nigerian writer Chimamandra Ngozi Adichie, they sparked a global conversation about everyday sexism. What happened to the HIV positive man who stood in a park in Finland with his eyes closed and asked passers-by if they dared to touch him? And how journalists in Burundi are risking their lives to produce news reports and post them on social media in the midst of a government imposed media blackout.
In the Why Factor, Mike Williams asks why we still like to use notes and coins despite the increasing popularity of cashless transactions.

Photo: Anti-poverty activists display a protest message pasted on dining plates at a park in Manila, 2007. Credit: Luis Liwanag/AFP/Getty Images