The Millennium Development Goals
1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day.
- Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
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2) Achieve universal primary education
- Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.
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3) Promote gender equality and empower women
- Eliminate disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.
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4) Reduce child mortality
- Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.
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5) Improve maternal health
- Reduce by two thirds the maternal mortality ration.
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6) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
- Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
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7) Ensure environmental sustainability
- Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources.
- Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.
- Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.
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8) Develop a global partnership for development
- Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rules-based, predictable and non-discriminatory, includes a commitment to good governance, poverty reduction - nationally and internationally
- Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
- Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing states.
- Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term.
- In cooperation with developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth.
- In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.
- In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies - especially information and communications technologies.
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