Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals

81 Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2009 Millennium Development to the Millennium Development GoalsAt the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of targets, with a deadline of 2015. These have become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2007, the MDG monitoring framework was revised to include four new targets agreed on by member states at the 2005 World Summit, namely, full and productive employment and decent work for all, access to reproductive health, access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, and protection of biodiversity. The indicators for these new targets became effective in January 2008 and this is the framework used here to monitor progress toward achieving the first MDG targets the poor directly those living on less than one dollar a day while the next six focus on the underlying causes of poverty, such as lack of access to education, health care, and employment; gender inequality; poor housing conditions; and environmental degradation.

is a short nontechnical write-up together with supporting statistical information in the form of figures, boxes, and tables, on the performance of countries toward achieving the goals. To ascertain the performance of countries toward reaching the MDGs, countries are assessed according to latest available data.

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