Can We Make Poverty History?

Pray for Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK Government (i.e., finance minister): he has a bold plan to attack world poverty, announced today. There is the inevitable opposition from the USA (so much for wanting to be biblica, Dubya). But even on top of that there is also the issue of changing hearts and attitudes long-term: even if we wipe out the debt that paralyses so much of the developing world we still leave in place the structures of power that can soon disable them. Don’t we?

Thanks to Paul Roberts for the link.