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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 8336316" data-attributes="member: 92282">Contradicting the Statements of  President Mahinda Rajapksa at the UN last evening, the UNP claims that  poverty is yet to be significantly reduced in Sri Lanka and thus the  achievement of the Millennium Development Goals is  still out of reach.          “The Millennium Development Goals consider per capital income and the  reduction of poverty. The present assessment of the President has been  made based on the 15.2 per-cent figure obtained in 2006/07, however this  figure did not take into account the massive bout of inflation  experienced in the country soon thereafter and the poverty in the North  and East,” UNP MP Dr. Harsha De Silva told the Daily Mirror earlier this  morning.           He added that if these elements were considered the poverty numbers in  Sri Lanka would likely be higher than those in the 2006/07 assessment.           “The reduction of poverty needs to be a household assessment. Because  it is a select few that are obtaining high returns from investments at  present. The reduction of the rate of malnutrition and the number of  people living on less than 2 US$ a day would be a truer depiction of the  situation and our path to development,” he added. <a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/6743-unp-contradicts-mr.html" target="_blank">Dailymirror</a></blockquote>

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