Unfinished Business : Mobilizing New Efforts to Achieve the 2015 Millenium Development Goals
Backed by sound economic policies and until the global crisis, a buoyant global economy, many developing countries made significant movement toward achieving the 2015millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly those for poverty reduction, gen...
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Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/820801468330950873/Unfinished-business-mobilizing-new-efforts-to-achieve-the-2015millennium-development-goals http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27896 |
| Summary: | Backed by sound economic policies and
until the global crisis, a buoyant global economy, many
developing countries made significant movement toward
achieving the 2015millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
particularly those for poverty reduction, gender parity in
education, and reliable access to safe water. But even
before the global economic crisis, progress in achieving
some MDGs, especially those on child and maternal mortality,
primary school completion, hunger, and sanitation, was
lagging. The global food, fuel and economic crises have set
back progress to the MDGs. An estimated 64 million more
people are living on less than $1.25/day than there would
have been without the crisis. The challenges ahead are
achieving the MDGs requires a vibrant global economy,
powered by strong, sustainable, multi-polar growth,
underpinned by sound policies and reform at the country
level; improving access for the poor to health, education,
affordable food, trade, finance, and basic infrastructure is
key to accelerating progress to the MDGs; developing
countries need to continue to strengthen resilience to
global volatility in order to protect gains and sustain
progress toward the MDGs; the international community must
renew its commitment to reach the 'bottom
billion', particularly those in fragile and
conflict-affected countries; and global support for a
comprehensive development agenda including through the G20
process is critical. In the wake of recent global crises,
and with the 2015 deadline approaching, business as usual is
not enough to meet the MDGs. |
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