AdvertisementHow To Eliminate Extreme Poverty In 169 Not-So-Easy StepsJuly 07, 2015Nurith AizenmanfacebookEmailStreet children sleep on a discarded mattress on a center island near a road crossing in Manila, Philippines, in April. After 15 years of the Millennium Development Goals, Asia as a region has had the fastest progress, reports the U.N., yet hundreds of millions of people there remain in extreme poverty. (AFP/Getty Images)