Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
In 2000, the international community made a commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This series of quantitative and time-bound targets are directed to reducing extreme poverty and hunger, improving basic services for people, such as health, education and a healthy environment, and creating a global partnership to enable these goals to be achieved. The MDGs are also the guiding principle for Dutch and European development policy.
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GISMO has been used for exploring the future long-term trends and achievements for a selection of MDGs. The figure below presents a selection of four indicators which we consider to be a core set of MDG indicators for the years 1990, 2000, 2015 and 2030, as well as the MDG targets for 2015 (indicated in red). These indicators include the proportion of the population living on less than one dollar (PPP) per day (MDG1), those below the minimum level of dietary energy consumption (MDG1), net enrolment ratios in primary education (MDG2), and under-five mortality rates (MDG4). In short, most regions seem to have found a pathway to economic development, showing rapid progress in meeting most targets. Significant progress can be observed in East Asia, where high economic growth rates facilitate rapid development. In addition, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa have made substantial progress in achieving the MDGs. Although their economic development is projected to be much lower than that of East Asia, these regions started in 1990 with a much higher development level. Finally, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are showing progress on all of the four MDGs, although reaching the targets by 2015 (or even by 2030) appears to be extremely difficult. |
