1. In 2000 - the international community agreed on a set of important targets to improve the lot of the world's poorest by 2015 - the Millennium Development Goals. 2. Many of these goals were extremely successful in vital areas such as reducing poverty and hunger - butthere is still much to be done. 3. Through the UN - world leaders are now working onthe next set of targets for 2016-2030. 4. As the world will spend $2. 5 trillion just on development aid over that period and countless trillions in national budgets - there are lots of contenders for thesetargets. 5. The jobs that are lost from free trade are obvious and concentrated-” witness western farmers protesting losing their subsidies.