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Devising a shared global strategy for the MDGs: building on successes towards 2015.

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Seven years on and halfway towards 2015--the deadline set for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals--success is still possible. The MDGs, which set quantitative benchmarks to halve extreme poverty in all its forms, are achievable if countries implement national development strategies and receive adequate support from the international community.

The annual progress report of the United Nations on the MDGs, released in June 2007, shows that remarkable progress has been made even in regions where the challenges are greatest. These accomplishments testify to the unprecedented degree of commitment by developing countries and their development partners to the Millennium Declaration, as well as to some success in building the global partnership embodied in the Declaration.

Based on the estimates produced by the World Bank in 2007, the number of people living on less than one dollar a day appears to have fallen from 1.25 billion in 1990 to some 980 million in 2004. Even in sub-Saharan Africa, the earlier relentless increase in the number of the poor appears to have been halted and their proportion has begun to decline, from 46 to 41...

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