'We are the first generation that can look extreme poverty in the eye, and say this and mean it — we have the cash, we have the drugs, we have the science. Do we have the will to make poverty history?' — Bono, September 2004

In 2005, the leaders of rich countries have the opportunity to lift millions of people out of poverty. At the G8 Summit, at the UN Special Session on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and at a ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), trade rules, aid, and the unstustainable debt of developing countries — issues critical to the future of the world's poorest people — will be up for discussion. But will world leaders deliver on their rhetoric?

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