UN Millennium Development Library

Preface -- Contributors -- Task force reports -- Millennium Development Goals -- Ten key recommendations -- 1 Why the Goals are important and why we're falling short -- The fulcrum of international development policy -- The means to a productive life -- A linchpin to global security -- Where we stand with only a decade to go -- Why progress is so mixed -- Four reasons for shortfalls in achieving the Goals -- 2 Country-level processes to achieve the Goals -- Designing a national strategy to achieve the Goals -- Working back from the 2015 targets and timelines -- Priority public investments to empower poor people -- The key elements for rapid scale-up -- Good governance to achieve the Goals -- 3 Recommendations fo r the international system -- to support country-level processes -- Fixing the aid system -- Key measures to improve aid delivery -- A breakthrough in global trade -- Regional and global public goods -- Getting started in 2005— launching a decade of bold ambition -- 4 The costs and benefits o f achieving the -- Millennium Development Goals -- Expanding the financial envelope to achieve the Goals -- The benefits: the case for a decade of bold ambition -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Boxes -- 1 The Monterrey Consensus as a framework for global partnership -- 2 Poverty reduction and global security -- 3 The means to a productive life -- 4 Partners in pursuing the Goals -- 5 MDG priorities for each region -- 6 Scaling up success -- 7 What advanced economies can do to achieve the Goals -- 8 Large-scale aid works—when done properly -- 9 Differentiating development support by country needs -- 10 Identifying MDG fast-track countries -- 11 The 0.7 percent official development assistance target and the Millennium Development Goals -- Figure -- 1 Rising national incomes reduce the risk of civil war Maps -- 1 Child mortality rate, 2002 -- 2 Maternal mortality ratio, 2000 -- 3 Share of urban population living in slums -- 4 Human vulnerability index, 1980 -- 5 Fertilizer consumption, 2001 -- 6 Physicians per 1,000 people -- 7 Antiretroviral drug coverage -- 8 Millennium Development Goals financing gap, 2015 -- Tables -- 1 Major trends in the Goals, by region -- 2 Population living below the poverty line -- 3 Agriculture risk, transport risk, and malaria risk, by region -- 4 Recommendations for reforming development partnership -- 5 Estimated official development assistance for direct MDG support and MDG capacity building, 2002.