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WORLDVIEW?xviii World Development Indicators 2013 Front User guide World view People Environment
The Millennium Declaration adopted by all themembers of the United Nations General Assemblyin 2000 represents a commitment to a moreeffective, results-oriented development partnershipin the 21st century. Progress documentedhere and in the annual reports of the UnitedNations Secretary- General has been encouraging:poverty rates have fallen, more children—especially girls—are enrolled in and completingschool, and they are—on average—living longerand healthier lives. Fewer mothers die in childbirth, and more women have access to reproductivehealth services.The indicators used to monitor the MillenniumDevelopment Goals have traced the path ofthe HIV epidemic, the resurgence and retreat oftuberculosis, and the step-by-step efforts to “rollback malaria.” More people now have accessto reliable water supplies and basic sanitationfacilities. But forests continue to disappear andwith them the habitat for many species of plantsand animals, and greenhouse gases continue toaccumulate in the atmosphere.From the start monitoring the MillenniumDevelopment Goals posed three challenges:selecting appropriate targets and indicators,constructing an international database for globalmonitoring, and significantly improving the quality,frequency, and availability of the relevant statistics.When they were adopted, the target yearof 2015 seemed comfortably far away, and thebaseline year of 1990 for measuring progressseemed a reasonable starting point with wellestablisheddata. As we near the end of that25-year span, we have a better appreciation ofhow great those challenges were.Already there is discussion of the post-2015 development agenda and the monitoringframework needed to record commitments andmeasure progress. The Millennium DevelopmentGoals have contributed to the development ofa statistical infrastructure that is increasinglycapable of producing reliable statistics on varioustopics. The post-2015 agenda and a welldesignedmonitoring framework will build on thatinfrastructure.The international database for monitoringthe Millennium Development Goals is a valuableresource for analyzing many developmentissues. The effort of building and maintainingsuch a database should not be underestimated,and it will take several years to implement anew framework of goals and targets. To serveas an analytical resource, the database will needto include additional indicators, beyond thosedirectly associated with the targets and the coredata for conducting these indicators. New technologiesand methods for reporting data shouldimprove the quality and timeliness of the resultingdatabase. The quality of data will ultimatelydepend on the capacity of national statisticalsystems, where most data originate.When the Millennium Development Goalswere adopted, few developing countries hadthe capacity or resources to produce statisticsof the requisite quality or frequency. Despitemuch progress, the statistical capacity-buildingprograms initiated over the last decade shouldcontinue, and other statistical domains needattention. Planning for post-2015 goals mustinclude concomitant plans for investments instatistics—by governments and developmentpartners alike.The effort to achieve the Millennium DevelopmentGoals has been enormous. The next set ofgoals will require an even larger effort. Withoutgood statistics, we will never know if we havesucceeded.1Economy States and markets Global links BackWorld Development Indicators 2013 1
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