Cuban News Agency

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Since Tuesday, the ministers in charge of social policies of these nations attend in Brasilia the 5th Ministerial Forum on Development, for which Brazil was selected due to its success in public actions like the Bolsa Familiar (Family Allowance) and Hambre Cero (Zero Hunger), acknowledged worldwide for their efficacy in fighting poverty, as well as for its program Brasil sin Miseria (Brazil without Poverty,) a plan to eradicate extreme poverty in this country, which took 28 million Brazilians out of this situation and now intends to do the same with another 16.2 million inhabitants, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

Tuesday's agenda included lectures by the Brazilian Minister for Social Development and Fight against Hunger, Tereza Campello, about her country’s experience in fighting poverty; university professor Luiz Gonzaga Belluzo, on world economy and the challenges of developing nations; and former Chilean Planning Minister Clarisa Hardy, on taxes for social policies to overcome poverty and inequality.

The Brazilian Ministry for Social Development and Fight against Hunger and the United Nations Development Program organize the forum in Brasilia, which will run until Thursday.

The fourth previous editions of the meeting were held in New York.