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What are the real objectives of Millennium Development Goals (MDG)? Do you think that millennium development goals have been able to achieve the desired goals of poverty alleviation and sustainable development?

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  • United Nations

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The Millennium Development Goals, eight goals (later 21 targets) distilled in 2001 from the Millennium Declaration (resolution 55/2, September 2000), set a 1990 baseline and a 2015 deadline. Their lineage ran through the OECD's International Development Goals of Shaping the 21st Century (1996). They achieved much on income poverty and far less on sustainability.

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  • The Real Objectives
  • Stated objectives
  • Underlying objectives
  • Poverty Alleviation: Substantial but Uneven
  • Sustainable Development: The Weakest Record
  • Conclusion
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