The Millennium Development Goals and the Road to 2015 : Building on Progress and Responding to Crisis
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a multidimensional framework for attacking poverty in a world of multi-polar growth. By focusing on measurable results, they provide a scorecard for assessing progress toward mutually agreed targets....
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World Bank
2012
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| Summary: | The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
provide a multidimensional framework for attacking poverty
in a world of multi-polar growth. By focusing on measurable
results, they provide a scorecard for assessing progress
toward mutually agreed targets. And by enlisting the support
of national governments, international agencies, and civil
society in a development partnership, they have brought
greater coherence to the global development effort. In this
way they take us beyond the old, sterile opposition of
'developed' and 'developing' or
'north' and 'south.' The evidence from
the last 20 years, documented in the statistical record of
the MDGs, is that where conditions and policies are right
for growth with equity, rapid and sustainable progress
toward improving the lives of the poorest people can take
place. Not every country will achieve the global MDG targets
in the time allowed. Success has not been distributed evenly
and there have been serious setbacks. Some countries are
still burdened by legacies of bad policies, institutional
failures, and civil and international conflict. For them,
progress toward the MDGs has been delayed, but the examples
of good progress by others point the way for their eventual success. |
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