Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in India : How Likely and What Will It Take to Reduce Infant Mortality, Child Malnutrition, Gender Disparities and Hunger-Poverty and to Increase School Enrollment and Completion?

[摘要] Since the launch of the MillenniumDevelopment Goals (MDGs) at the Millennium Summit in NewYork in September 2000, the MDGs have become the mostwidely-accepted yardstick of development efforts bygovernments, donors and NGOs. The MDGs are a set ofnumerical and time-bound targets related to key achievementsin human development. They include halving income-povertyand hunger, achieving universal primary education and genderequality, reducing infant and child mortality by two-thirdsand maternal mortality by three quarters, reversing thespread of HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases, andhalving the proportion of people without access to safewater. These targets are to be achieved by 2015, from theirlevels in 1990.

[发布日期] 2004-12-02 [发布机构] Washington, DC

[学科分类] 社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

[关键词] ACCESS TO SAFE WATER;AGED;ANTENATAL CARE;ANTENATAL CARE COVERAGE;BIRTH WEIGHT