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United Nations in September 2000 67 are to:<br />
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger<br />
2. Achieve universal primary education<br />
3. Promote gender equality and empower women<br />
4. Reduce child mortality<br />
5. Improve maternal health<br />
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases<br />
7. Ensure environmental sustainability<br />
8. Develop a global partnership for development<br />
All UN member states have committed themselves to reach<br />
these goals by 2015.<br />
But what are these supposed connections between FDI-Flows and these Millenium<br />
Development Goals – that are viewed as immanent by the authors of the<br />
UNCTAD-study? They associate some kind of magical relationship of foreign private<br />
investment and development, so that, e.g.:<br />
• Foreign private investment in the food industry would eradicate hunger.<br />
• Privately financed primary schools would guarantee a universal primary education<br />
for all children.<br />
• Sales-related production of goods and services would promote gender equality<br />
and the empowerment of women.<br />
• Privately financed hospitals, a competitive health sector and profit-oriented pharmaceutical<br />
research would reduce infant mortality, improve maternal health and<br />
combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.<br />
• Privately financed industry and infrastructure projects would ensure environmental<br />
sustainability and develop a global partnership for development.<br />
67 See, e.g., http://www.uno.de/sg/millennium/ziele/, http://www.un.org/millennium/ or also http://www.developme<br />
ntgoals.org.