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The Millennium Development Goals
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Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger |
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Target 1: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
Target 2: Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
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Achieve universal primary education |
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Promote gender equality and empower women |
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Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
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Reduce child mortality |
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Improve maternal health |
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Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases |
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Target 7: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
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Ensure environmental sustainability |
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Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
Target 10: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
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Develop a global partnership for development |
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Target 12: Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally
Target 13: 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
Target 14: Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
Target 15: Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
Target 16: In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies
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