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 MDG Goals
 
 Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

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Indicators

Target 1a: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day

Target 1b: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

Target 1c: Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

 
 Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Indicators

Target 2a: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

 
 Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Indicators

Target 3a: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

 
 Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Indicators

Target 4a: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

 
 Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Indicators

Target 5a: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

Target 5b: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

 
 Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Indicators

Target 6a: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

Target 6b: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it

Target 6c: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

 
 Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Indicators

Target 7a: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources


Target 7b: Reduce bio-diversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss

Target 7c: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

Target 7d: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

 
 Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
Indicators

Target 8a: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction – both nationally and internationally


Target 8b: Address the special needs of the least developed countries
Includes: tariff and quota free access for the least developed countries' exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction


Target 8c: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly)


Target 8d: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term

 

Official Development Assistance (ODA)

Market Access

Debt Sustainability

Target 8e: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

Target 8f: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications