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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

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Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1/8)

Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day. Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

China - Success: A young family in a supermarket in Shenyang in northern China. While poverty remains a big problem in many African nations, China managed to lift hundreds of millions of citizens out of extreme poverty during the last few decades. (Photo: Reuters)

Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education (2/8)

Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.

Southern Asia - Success: Participation rates in both private and public primary schools in Southern Asia has climbed above 90 percent in 2008; yet more than 18 million children of primary school age are not enrolled.(Photo: Reuters)

Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3/8)

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

Germany - Failure: Pedestrian crossing lights in Zwickau, where little green women have replaced little green men. While the MDGs focus on developing countries, rich nations like Germany would also fail on some of them. German women, for example, still earn on average 22 percent less than men. (Photo: Reuters)

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality (4/8)

Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.

India - Stalemate: A child is given a medicine during a camp in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Although infant mortality in India declined by as much as 35 percent during the last decades of the 20th century, mortality rates still remain high. (Photo: Reuters)

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health (5/8)

Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio.

Indonesia - Failure: A mother holds her newborn baby girl at a makeshift hospital on Indonesia's Nias Island. Among the five million deliveries in Indonesia annually, an estimated 20,000 women die due to complications related to pregnancy and delivery. Considering current trends, the fifth MDG is unlikely to be achieved in Indonesia. (Photo: Reuters)

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6/8)

Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

China - Failure: Catholic nuns weave a large red ribbon on World AIDS Day in Shenyang. Some 700,000 people in China are infected with HIV, including about 75,000 AIDS patients. According to the UK-based NGO AVERT, China is experiencing one of the most rapidly expanding HIV epidemics in the world. (Photo: Reuters)

Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7/8)

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources. Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.

Brazil - Slight Success: This aerial view shows farmland next to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Since August 2008, less than 10,000 square kilometers of Amazon forest have been lost, the lowest level in more than 20 years. But while deforestation rates have slowed since 2004, forest loss is expected to continue. (Photo: Reuters)

Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development (8/8)

Further develop a non-discriminatory open trading and financial system. Improve tariff- and quota-free access for exports from developing countries; enhance debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; be more generous with development assistance.

World - Failure: American soldiers load food and water donated by USAID in Aceh, Indonesia, in December 2004. Official development assistance (ODA) continued to drop from an all-time high of 107 billion dollars in 2005, to 104 billion dollars in 2007. Aid flows need to increase by 18 billion dollars per year to meet the promise made by the G8 in 2005 of doubling aid by 2010. (Photo: Reuters)

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