Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

This book provides analytical insights into if and how the targets adopted by the international community are likely to be achieved. A key feature of the analysis is the recognition that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analysing the MDGs but also devising strategies.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are arguably the most ambitious developmental undertaking ever embraced by the international community. They involve the achievement of targets, in most cases by 2015, for the reduction of extreme income poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS and other major diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development. This book provides cutting edge analytical insights into if and how the stated aims are likely to be achieved. The volume presents empirical analyses of key determinants of the MDG target variables, which recognise that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analysing the MDGs but also devising strategies aimed at their achievement.

The Millennium Developments Goals: Overview, Progress and Prospects
M.McGillivray
Projecting Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals
H.White and N.Blondal
Achieving Health, Wealth and Wisdom: Links between Aid and the Millennium Development Goals
D.Fielding, M.McGillivray and S.Torres
Achieving the Water and Sanitation Millennium Development Goal
P.B.Anand
Measuring Pro-poor Growth in Progress Toward Non-income Millennium Development Goal Targets
M.Grosse, K.Harttgen and S.Klasen
Links between Childhood Mortality and Economic Growth and their Implications for the Millennium Development Goals in India
S.Bhalotra
Achieving the Millennium Development Goal for Primary Schooling in India
S.Bhalotra and B.Zamora
The Burden of Debt and the Millennium Development Goal for Poverty in India
I.Dutta