PHA-Exchange> eForum on Achieving the MDGs: A Global Public Goods Perspect ive

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"Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Global Public Goods Perspective" 
To be held on the global public goods Network ( http://www.gpgNet.net ) platform 
>From 3 to 17 November 2003. 


The point up for debate is: 
How could enhancing the provision of select global public goods facilitate achieving the MDGs at the set target date? 

Read the complete background paper at http://www.gpgnet.net/discussion.php
                                                 
You may subscribe to the MDGs and Global Public Goods discussion forum by sending a blank email to:
subscribe-gpgnet-mdgs at groups.undp.org 



The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and targets are based on the Millennium Declaration adopted by world leaders at the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2000. Most of the Goals are to be achieved by 2015 and are aimed at such objectives as reducing some of the worst forms of poverty and other types of human deprivation. The MDGs are an ambitious initiative. As various studies have pointed out, a number of countries have a long way to travel in order to reach the Goals at the set target dates. In fact, it is increasingly becoming clear that a "business as usual" scenario will not do.



To stimulate the debate on this topic, two background documents are presented. The first document is: Global Public Goods: A Key To Achieving The Millennium Development Goal, a paper prepared by the Office of Development Studies - ODS, UNDP. The second document is the paper Public Goods and Economic Development by Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak. Both these papers along with the background note to the discussion are available at http://www.gpgnet.net/discussion.php and will also be circulated to the conference registrants over email.



Please join us for this debate and share with us -and the global public- your observations on this topic. 



Yours sincerely, 



Inge Kaul
Director
Office of Development Studies



Vikas Nath - Manager, global public goods Network (gpgNet) Forum 

United Nations Development Programme




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