Nandy and MDGs

Ashis Nandy argues that development will not lead to an end of poverty. She suggests that the idea of a decline in poverty, real or imagine will defy economists and need its own autonomy from other issues. She argues that poverty is less cultural and more economic nowadays She argues that liberal democratic institutions insure some will always poor, and that there development-oriented reforms always lead to destitution. She supports eradicating destitution, and living with poverty.

This led me to wonder how the author feels about the UN's Millennium Development Goal to end hunger and extreme poverty. (In the nearer term, it hopes to cut the number of people in extreme poverty, less than a dollar a day, in half and cut in half the number of people suffering from hunger).