Energizing the global MDG effort

The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by world leaders in 2000 sparked a wave of optimism across the world that some of the most chronic problems affecting human wellbeing and environmental sustainability could be addressed and overcome within 15 years. However, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon observed in The Washington Post in January 2010 after meeting Haiti earthquake survivors: "Great strides have been made toward some of these ambitious millennium goals," variously targeting core sources of global poverty and obstacles to development.... Yet progress in other critical areas lags badly. We are very far from delivering on our promises of a better future for the world's poor.

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