Training Report: Millennium Development Goals in the SAARC Region

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The developing world owes
Debt repayments drain the poorest countries of resources.
$2 trillion
in foreign debts
($2,000,000,000,000)
It was because of these ideas and the pressure put on a summit
in 2000
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It was the Millennium and the world ought to make an
effort to do something special If they were to release the poor
countries from debt, then the rich countries would only agree
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if the released money was spent on things that improve
the lot of the ordinary people
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So it was decided that the whole world together,
especially the poor countries themselves and the richer ones with
their AID programs, would put all their efforts into achieving
certain things by 2015.
Addis Ababa: In September 2000, the United Nations Millennium
Summit endorsed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in
what was called the Millennium Declaration. More than 180
countries signed this declaration. The main objective of the
Millennium Summit was to set quantifiable and time-bound global
development goals to end human suffering from hunger,
destitution and diseases, mainly in developing countries.
Since their inception, the MDGs have been embedded in several
international and regional initiatives and have had a huge
influence on policy discourse throughout the developing world.
The MDGs, which comprise eight goals, 18 targets and 48
indicators, are the culmination of several international efforts and
initiatives to mobilize resources for development from the mid-
1990s
GOAL # 1
Eradicate extreme poverty
and hunger
Halve the proportion of
people whose income is
less than one dollar a day.
Halve the proportion of
people who suffer from
hunger
Deadline 2015
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