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Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant, measurable improvements in people's lives. They establish yardsticks for measuring results, not just for developing countries but for rich countries that help to fund development programs and for the multilateral institutions that help countries implement them.
The first seven goals are mutually reinforcing and are
directed at reducing poverty in all its forms. The last goal -- global
partnership for development -- is about the means to achieve the first seven.
The list of goals, targets and
indicators presented below is the new official MDG Framework incorporating four
additional targets and related indicators and other indicator improvements
adopted at the 62nd General Assembly of the United Nations in 2007.
MDG Targets and Indicators
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Goals
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Goal
1 |
Eradicate
extreme poverty and hunger |
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Halve,
between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1
a day |
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Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people |
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Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
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Goal
2 |
Achieve
universal primary education |
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Ensure
that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to
complete a full course of primary schooling |
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Goal
3 |
Promote
gender equality and empower women |
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Eliminate
gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and in
all levels of education no later than 2015 |
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Goal
4 |
Reduce
child mortality |
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Reduce
by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate |
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Goal
5 |
Improve
maternal health |
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Reduce
by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio |
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Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health |
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Goal
6 |
Combat
HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases |
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Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS |
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Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it |
· Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to antiretroviral drugs |
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Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases |
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Goal
7 |
Ensure
environmental sustainability |
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Integrate
the principles of sustainable development into country policies and program
and reverse the loss of environmental resources |
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Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss |
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Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation |
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By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers |
· Proportion of urban population living in slums |
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Goal
8 |
Develop a global partnership for development 1 |
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Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system (includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction—both nationally and internationally) |
Official
development assistance
Market
access
Debt
sustainability
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Address the special needs of the least developed countries (includes tariff-and quota-free access for exports enhanced program of debt relief for heaviy indebted poor countries (HICP) and cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction) |
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Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing states (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the 22nd special session of the General Assembly) |
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Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term |
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In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries |
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In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications |
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