Bellingham Herald: When a handful of technocrats from the world's most advanced nations gathered in a United Nations basement in 2000 to finalize the world's first-ever development goals, their objective seemed simple: create a blueprint to help the world's poor by 2015.
But as the deadline nears and many targets remain to be met, the United Nations is shifting from what it once hailed as the world's ambitious, unwavering promise to the world's poor -- the Millennium Development Goals -- to a more inclusive, participatory...