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Honduran President Cites CGD Report in Speech

October 04, 2010

The Honduran President, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, cited Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index by research fellow Ben Leo in a speech to the MDG summit at the United Nations.

From the President’s remarks: “Even if the Goals have not yet been achieved, there are very positive advances for a group of countries that, according to the Center for Global Development, includes at its head my own, along with Laos, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Cambodia and Ghana.”

Watch the address or read the speech (in Spanish)