FUNDING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS. ESRI THIRTY-THIRD GEARY LECTURE, 2004

Atkinson, A.B. (2004) FUNDING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS. ESRI THIRTY-THIRD GEARY LECTURE, 2004. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the states of the United Nations set out a vision of a global partnership for development, directed at the achievement of specific targets. Specifically, 189 countries signed up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summarised in Box 1. The concrete goals include the halving by 2015 of the proportion of people living in extreme poverty, halving the proportion hungry, and halving the proportion lacking access to safe drinking water. The objectives include the achievement of universal primary education and gender equality in education, the achievement by 2015 of a three-fourths decline in maternal mortality and a two-thirds decline in mortality among children under 5 years. They include halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing special assistance to AIDS orphans.

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