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- Summary:
- This is a report in which the World Bank accesses progress made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), outlining the accomplishments made and the challenges to be met. It particularly focuses on the impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the process of meeting these objectives. The Bank asserts that some progress has been made regarding the first MDG, which focuses on reducing extreme poverty and hunger. While poverty levels are expected to fall gradually in developing countries, the issue of hunger reduction, particularly child malnutrition, continues to characterize these countries. The Bank attributes more than a third of the diseases that affect children under five to malnutrition. In terms of the third MDG, focused on the achievement of gender parity in primary and secondary education, the Bank has observed remarkable progress, particularly with young girls completing primary school at increasingly higher rates. Nevertheless, more effort needs to be done at higher levels of education to ensure not only gender parity, but also a better quality of education. With a rather uncertain and likely uneven recovery from the financial and economic crisis that began around 2008, it is critical that stakeholders around the world, including international financial institutions, governments, non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, etc., place even greater emphasis on meeting the MDG goals to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, and disease by the 2015 deadlines. The document calls on the international community to make access to well-designed conditional cash transfer programs easier for poor households around the world, particularly during periods of economic crisis, because such infusions of cash can be critical in supplementing household income, preventing malnutrition, and ensuring that children remain in school. The World Bank also believes that health systems need to be dealt with in a comprehensive manner, taking into account financing, service delivery, regulation, and governance systems, which were likely impacted by the economic crisis. And lastly, the Bank believes that in order to counter the setbacks caused by the crisis, the international community must promote inclusive and sustainable global economic growth, particularly by maintaining open international trade and providing support for the growth of the private sector in developing countries. ( English )
- Subject:
- Poverty ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- (2010). Global monitoring report 2010: the MDGs after the crisis. The World Bank.
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