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Each year, UNDP's Annual Report details its activities around the world, highlighting the challenges and achievements of the organization and its network of partners in their endeavour to help developing countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Annual Report 2009: Living up to Commitments
 The burgeoning financial crisis that came to a dramatic head in September 2008 after more than a year of volatile food, energy and commodity prices compounded a series of shocks already being felt around the world. As daily headlines chart the ups and downs of stock prices and chronicle the failures of financial institutions and industrial giants, the international community must take a step back and examine what is at stake for the hundreds of millions in developing countries who had benefited from the strong growth of the past decade, as well as those who continued to struggle even during that period of global economic expansion, mired in abject poverty.
As UNDP continues to support developing countries as they address the current economic and financial crisis, it is staying true to the shared sets of values as set out by the Millennium Declaration. UNDP thus remains committed to ensuring that our policy advice, technical support and advocacy for strengthening coherence is aimed at one end result: real improvements in people’s lives and in the choices and opportunities open to them.
Annual Report 2009 | The Year in Pictures | Download the Report
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