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Reaching Millennium Goals in Asia

Date

October 7 2003


This study analysed the prospects, challenges and opportunities for attaining the MDGs by 2015 in Asia and the Pacific. Below are some of its findings on progress for selected targets using 1990 as a base year:


Targets: Prognosis: Likelihood:
Halve the proportion of people

living on less than one dollar a day		 Very good Very probable
Ensure that boys and girls will be able

to complete primary schooling		 Slow Unlikely
Eliminate gender disparity in primary

and secondary education		 Good Probable
Reduce under-5 mortality rates by 66% Modest Unlikely
Reduce maternal mortality ratio by 75% Poor Unlikely
Reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

and other major diseases		 Modest Possible
Integrate sustainable development into country

policies and reverse environmental resource loss		 Poor Unlikely
Halve the proportion of people without

sustainable access to safe drinking water		 Modest Unlikely



Source

Promoting the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific [PDF]

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Placed on the Communication Initiative site October 06 2003
Last Updated October 06 2003

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