MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
United Nations Millennium Development Goals
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all 192 members and a number of international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015 to end poverty. They include reducing extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics, such as HIV/AIDS, and creating a global partnership for development.
The main goal that concerns the WTO is MDG 8, building a global partnership for development. However, WTO activities are also relevant to other goals, such as MDG 1, whose aim is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. In fact, the MDGs cannot be seen in isolation: they are all interconnected.
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Target 1a: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day |
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Target 2a: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling |
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Target 3a: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 |
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Target 4a: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five |
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Target 5a: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio |
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Target 6a: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS |
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Target 7a: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources |
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Target 8a: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system |