Human development report 2003 : Millennium development goals : a compact among nations to end human poverty /
Material type: TextLanguage: English, French Publisher: New York, N.Y. ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003Description: xv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195219880
- 9780195219883
- 0195219155
- 9780195219159
- Millennium development goals: a compact among nations to end human poverty
- 338.9 U.N.H
- "Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)."
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Continuing Resources | Centeral Library First floor - Management | 338.9 U.N.H 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 10655 |
"Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)."
"The range of human development in the world is vast and uneven, with astrounding progress in some areas amid stagnation and dismal decline in others. Balance and stability in the world will require the commitment of all nations, rich and poor, and a global development compact to extend the wealth of possibilities to all people." - from cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Overview: The Millennium development compact -- The Millennium development goals -- Priority challenges in meeting the goals -- Overcoming structural barriers to growth - to achieve the goals -- Public policies to improve people's health and education -- Private finance and the provision of health, education and water -- Public policies to ensure environmental sustainability -- Mobilizing grass-roots support of the goals -- Policy, not charity: what rich countries and do the achieve the goals -- Millennium development goal indicators -- Human development indicators
"Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)."
In September 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit proposed eight Millennium Development Goals to encourage policy change toward poverty. The goals seek to offer concrete ideas on how each country can develop an action plan to pull itself into a higher stastical bracket in key demographic areas, such as halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, halving adult illiteracy, or enrolling boys and girls in primary schools by 2015
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