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The importance of the MDGs: the United Nations leadership in development.

Publication: UN Chronicle
Publication Date: 01-DEC-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The importance of the MDGs: the United Nations leadership in development.(The Millennium Development Goals: Towards 2015)

Article Excerpt
The Millennium Development Goals are the international community's most broadly shared, comprehensive and focused framework for reducing poverty. Drawn from the Millennium Declaration, adopted and agreed to by all Governments in 2000, the MDGs represent the commitments of United Nations Member States to reduce extreme poverty and its many manifestations: hunger, disease, gender inequality, lack of education and access to basic infrastructure, and environmental degradation.

The MDGs set quantitative objectives to be achieved by 2015. They also drive international development policy by spelling out the responsibilities of rich countries to support poor countries through aid, debt relief and improved market access. The Goals confirmed the importance of the United Nations, with its unique legitimacy and convening power, as the multilateral body best placed to build global coalitions and political action to address global problems....

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