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This report examines the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and the African Union's Agenda 2063 aim to eradicate extreme poverty and the likelihood that this goal can be fulfilled. The authors suggest that many African states are unlikely to reduce extreme poverty to below 3 percent by 2030. They then examine what approaches African countries and stakeholders should adopt to help poverty reduction and suggest that a more realistic goal for Africa would be to reduce poverty to below 20 percent by 2030 and to below 3 percent by 2063.