Millennium Development Goals List

A Millennium Development Goals List is a list of human development goals.

• See: Malaria, Sustainable Development Goals, Extreme Poverty, Universal Primary Education, Gender Equality, Child Mortality, Maternal Health, HIV/AIDS.

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2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals Retrieved:2017-8-1.
  • # To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
    1. To achieve universal primary education.
    2. To promote gender equality and empower women
    3. To reduce child mortality.
    4. To improve maternal health.
    5. To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
    6. To ensure environmental sustainability # To develop a global partnership for development
  • Each goal had specific targets, and dates for achieving those targets. To accelerate progress, the G8 finance ministers agreed in June 2005 to provide enough funds to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to cancel $40 to $55 billion in debt owed by members of the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) to allow them to redirect resources to programs for improving health and education and for alleviating poverty.

    Critics of the MDGs complained of a lack of analysis and justification behind the chosen objectives, and the difficulty or lack of measurements for some goals and uneven progress, among others. Although developed countries' aid for achieving the MDGs rose during the challenge period, more than half went for debt relief and much of the remainder going towards natural disaster relief and military aid, rather than further development.

    As of 2013, progress towards the goals was uneven. Some countries achieved many goals, while others were not on track to realize any. A UN conference in September 2010 reviewed progress to date and adopted a global plan to achieve the eight goals by their target date. New commitments targeted women's and children's health, and new initiatives in the worldwide battle against poverty, hunger and disease.

    Among the non-governmental organizations assisting were the United Nations Millennium Campaign, the Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc., the Global Poverty Project, the Micah Challenge, The Youth in Action EU Programme, "Cartoons in Action" video project and the 8 Visions of Hope global art project.

    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the MDGs in 2016.

2016

• (Hickel, 2016) ⇒ Jason Hickel. (2016). “The True Extent of Global Poverty and Hunger: Questioning the Good News Narrative of the Millennium Development Goals.” In: Third World Quarterly, 37(5).
  • QUOTE: The final report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) concludes that the project has been ‘the most successful anti-poverty movement in history’. Two key claims underpin this narrative: that global poverty has been cut in half, and global hunger nearly in half, since 1990. This good-news narrative has been touted by the United Nations and has been widely repeated by the media. But closer inspection reveals that the UN’s claims about poverty and hunger are misleading, and even intentionally inaccurate. The MDGs have used targeted statistical manipulation to make it seem as though the poverty and hunger trends have been improving when in fact they have worsened. In addition, the MDGs use definitions of poverty and hunger that dramatically underestimate the scale likely of these problems. In reality, around four billion people remain in poverty today, and around two billion remain hungry – more than ever before in history, and between two and four times what the UN would have us believe. The implications of this reality are profound. Worsening poverty and hunger trends indicate that our present model of development is not working and needs to be fundamentally rethought.

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