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The millenium development goals

By Alexander Carpenter

  1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

    • Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than one U.S. dollar a day.
    • Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
    • Increase the amount of food for those who suffer from hunger.

  2. Achieve universal primary education

    • Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.
    • Increased enrollment must be accompanied by efforts to ensure that
      all children remain in school and receive a high-quality education

  3. Promote gender equality and empower women

    • Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

  4. Reduce child mortality

  5. Improve maternal health

  6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases

    • Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
    • Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

  7. Ensure environmental sustainability

    • Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources.
    • Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access
      to safe drinking water (for more information see the entry on water supply).
    • Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.

  8. Develop a global partnership for development

    • Develop further an open trading and financial system that is
      rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment
      to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally.
    • Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
    • Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States.
    • Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems
      through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in
      the long term.
    • In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth.
    • In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.

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