PHA-Exchange> Millennium Development Goals: From Vision to Action

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from "Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)" <ruglucia at PAHO.ORG> -----

            Millennium Development Goals and Monterrey Consensus:
>From Vision to Action

Zia Qureshi, World Bank

This paper presents an overview of the Global Monitoring Report 2004:
Policies and Actions for
 Achieving the MDGs and Related Outcomes, prepared jointly by staff of
the World Bank 
and the International Monetary Fund for the Development Committee, the
joint Ministerial body of the 
Bank and the Fund, which discussed it at its meeting in Washington, D.C.
on April 25, 2004. 

For an elaboration of the assessments summarized in the paper and
supporting

sources, the reader should refer to the full report, available at:
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/thematic.htm

PDF file at:
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/eurvp/web.nsf/Pages/Paper+by+Qureshi/$File
/MOHAMMED+QURESHI.PDF

".........On current trends, most MDGs will not be met by most
developing countries. The income 
poverty goal is likely to be met at the global level, but Africa will
fall well short. For the human development 
goals, the risks are much more pervasive across the regions. Likely
shortfalls are especially serious
with respect to the health and environmental goals-child and maternal
mortality, access to safe drinking 
water and basic sanitation. Few, if any, regions will achieve the
mortality goals. 

The implication of these prospects is clear. There is an urgent need to
scale up action on the part of both 
developing and developed countries, based on the Monterrey partnership.
Policies and governance in 
developing countries are improving but progress needs to be accelerated
and deepened to achieve 
stronger economic growth and improve the delivery of basic human
services. Developed country actions
 to date have fallen well short of the Monterrey commitments. Two
highest priorities are to ensure a 
timely and pro-development outcome to the Doha Round and to increase aid
in amounts that are sufficient 
and in forms that are responsive to needs......."



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