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?

World Bank

Washington, DC

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

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 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.