The Millennium Development Goals & Bangladesh

The Lancet, 2005

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WILSON AND ASSOCIATES CONSULTING SERVICES/INSTITUTE, 2010

Abstract The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) according to analysts is the world biggest promise to mankind. It is a global mission with eight (8) vocal points of: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and women empowerment; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development. In order to achieve these objectives, MDGs goals are sub-divided into eighteen (18) clear cut targets and forty-eight (48) indicators believed to be necessary as acid-test facilitator for the achievements of these laudable goals. These laudable goals are expected to be achieved between the years 1990-2015. Nigeria being a member of global committee of nations in the time past and recent adopts various developmental plans such as VISION 2010,NEEDS, 7-Points Agenda, VISION 20:2020, SURE etc within the framework of MDG to serve as driving force to achieve these laudable projects. Achieving these goals involves a lot of commitments. The essence of this paper is to examine through the use of non-parametric statistical test, the extent to which these goals (MDG) have been achieved and make relevant suggestions to aid speedy achievement of these goals. Keywords: Enrolment Rate, Gender Equality, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty Reduction, Targets and Indicators

Shiraz E-Medical Journal, 2015

The millennium development goals (MDG) are global committed efforts to provide anti-poverty and disparity document. During the past 15 years and based on MDGs, nearly all countries have made efforts to achieve its related goals. Therefore, the current narrative review aimed to analyze the MDGs' challenge and achievements with the focus on Islamic Republic of Iran. Evidence Acquisition: This study was a non-systematic narrative review conducted through studies and reports published from 2000 to 2015, about MDGs' progress worldwide, compared to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Results: According to the review, almost all countries have had remarkable improvement in all MDGs. Among them Iran's achievements are significant in five goals out of eight, but to reach the goals number 6 and 7 related to HIV/AIDS control and environmental sustainability, Iran has a rough way to go. The challenges that countries are facing to reach MDGs are slow growth outlook, limited resources, institutional reforms deficiency, insufficient development capacity, unequal income distribution, global economic situation especially during the past five years, absence of political commitment to the MDGs, lack of supportive environment to attract private sector for investment and development and the last but not least un-inclusive growth. Conclusions: All countries reported improvements in MDG indicators, while SDGs has opened new doors of opportunity for countries to promote their socioeconomic status.

The Millennium Development Goals, set forth in the UN Millennium Declaration 2000, are a set of quantified and time-bound goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and deprivation of the world's poorest people. This paper highlights these goals and assesses Bangladesh's achieventments in the first five years after the adoption of the Declaration and its prospects to reach the goals by the 2015 deadline. While Bangladesh seems to be on track to achieve some of the MDGs such as universal primary education and gender parity, the prospects in other areas appear doubtful. International cooperation in the form of greater aid flows and trade liberalization by richer nations to allow greater market access for the country's exports will be needed to accelerate the country's economic growth, which is crucial to the attainment of the MDGs.]

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This report was prepared by UNDP, drawing on the information and analysis contained in thirty-four MDG Country Reports, which represent a new generation of analytical country reports produced in the year 2010. UNDP remains responsible for any interpretations and errors contained in the report. This synthesis report is the culmination of the tremendous and enduring work undertaken by a number of officials in relevant Government Ministries, United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) colleagues and consultants involved in developing 34 quality MDG Country Reports in a short period of time. While it is not possible to list all the individuals involved, the development of this report would not been possible without the contributions of each and every individual. A number of UN and UNDP colleagues at the country level provided unwavering support to the development of the 34 MDG Country Reports.

Indian Journal of Applied Research, 2011

The MDGs are the world's targets for reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 including income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been widely accepted as a yardstick for measuring the development progress across the countries. The year 1990 has been considered as the base year and the year 2015 as the end period for this purpose. This paper examines the status and progress of MDGs in world and India. The reality is that most countries may achieve progress on some goals and face a unique set of challenges in achieving others; there is a wide variation of progress. Despite progress towards achievement of some of the targets, numerous Goals and targets are likely to be missed unless additional, strengthened or corrective action is taken urgently.

KIU Journal of Social Sciences , 2020

Millennium Development Goals, are 8 goals which the international community agreed to achieve from 2000 to 2015 that centers on eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promote gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, reducing prevalence of malaria, and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development. This study is an assessment of the MDGs, and the study utilized qualitative method and the data for the study was obtained from secondary source. Result from analytical analysis indicated that, while some of the goals were achieved especially in the developed countries, some other goals were not achieved mostly by the low-income countries. This paper argues that, for the world to achieve the next world development agender which is SDG, there must be more cooperation and coordination among member states in terms of resources mobilization and planning.