In the most comprehensive strategy ever put forward for combating global poverty, hunger and disease, a blue-ribbon team of 265 of the world's leading development experts have proposed a package of scores of specific cost-effective measures that together could cut extreme poverty in half and radically improve the lives of at least one billion people in poor developing countries by 2015. The recommendations of the UN Millennium Project, an independent advisory body to the UN Secretary-General, are laid out in the report 'Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals'. The report was presented to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Secretary-General Annan has said the fight against extreme poverty should be the top priority of the world community and the UN system in 2005.