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Jeffrey D. Sachs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Millennium Development Goals at 10.
Scientific American, 2010Co-Authors: Jeffrey D. SachsAbstract:The article discusses the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Millennium Declaration, and prospects for using MDGs to end extreme poverty. The author notes commitments to achieving the MDGs regarding poverty made by past and current UN secretaries-general Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, respectively, as well as U.S. President Barack Obama.
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India's Challenge to Meet the Millennium Development Goals
2005Co-Authors: Nirupam Bajpai, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Nicole H. VolavkaAbstract:On its current economic trajectory, India will achieve some of the eight Millennium Development Goals, but will miss many of the others. The good news is that India is making great strides with regard to the first of the Millennium Development Goals: reducing extreme poverty. Even though there is an active debate about the “exact” measure of extreme poverty, all indicators suggest rapid progress, enough on the current trajectory so that the headcount poverty rate in 2015 will be less than half of the rate in 1990, as called for by the Millennium Development Goals. At the same time, India is likely to miss several of the other Goals, related to hunger, IMR, under5, and MMR, disease, and the physical environment. The proportion of children in India who are chronically undernourished remains very high. So too does the MMR and IMR. And the goal of environmental sustainability is not being achieved, as parts of India are suffering from worsening crises of water, soils, and deforestation. What India requires is a significant increase of targeted investments in clinics, schools, nutrition programs, disease control, irrigation, rural electrification, rural roads, and other basic investments, especially in rural India as the current budgetary allocations are inadequate. Higher public investments in these areas need to be accompanied by systemic reforms that will help overhaul the present system of service delivery, including issues of control and oversight. Additionally, India should “plan for success.” The Planning Commission should ensure that current programs as well as the next Five-Year Plan are built around achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Indeed, not only the Union Government, but every state and even every district, should base their investment programs around achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Nirupam Bajpai is Director, South Asia Program at the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development (CGSD) and a member of the UN Millennium Project. Jeffrey D. Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Nicole H. Volavka was a Research Coordinator at CGSD when this study was undertaken.
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health in the developing world achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Bulletin of The World Health Organization, 2004Co-Authors: Jeffrey D. SachsAbstract:The Millennium Development Goals depend critically on scaling up public health investments in developing countries. As a matter of urgency, developing-country governments must present detailed investment plans that are sufficiently ambitious to meet the Goals, and the plans must be inserted into existing donor processes. Donor countries must keep the promises they have often reiterated of increased assistance, which they can easily afford, to help improve health in the developing countries and ensure stability for the whole world.
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Millennium Development Goals: Reality and Prospects
2004Co-Authors: Jeffrey D. SachsAbstract:Let me thank you very much first for inviting me back to this wonderful country. I am also very thankful for your kind invitation of life membership in your Association, which was bestowed yesterday. This trip has given me a chance to spend some time this morning with you brainstorming about the challenges posed by the Millennium Development Goals, not just to Bangladesh, but also to low income countries all over the world.
Martin Mckee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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financing the Millennium Development Goals for health and beyond sustaining the big push
Globalization and Health, 2010Co-Authors: Gorik Ooms, David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu, Martin MckeeAbstract:Many of the Millennium Development Goals are not being achieved in the world's poorest countries, yet only five years remain until the target date. The financing of these Goals is not merely insufficient; current evidence indicates that the temporary nature of the financing, as well as challenges to coordinating its delivery and directing it to the most needy recipients, hinder achievement of the Goals in countries that may benefit most. Traditional approaches to providing Development assistance for health have not been able to address both prevalent and emergent public health challenges captured in the Goals; these challenges demand sustained forms of financial redistribution through a coordinated mechanism. A global social health protection fund is proposed to address recurring failures in the modern aid distribution mechanism. Such a Fund could use established and effective strategies for aid delivery to mitigate many financial problems currently undermining the Millennium Development Goals initiative.
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Are the health Millennium Development Goals appropriate for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Health policy (Amsterdam Netherlands), 2005Co-Authors: Bernd Rechel, Laidon Shapo, Martin MckeeAbstract:This article argues that the health-related Millennium Development Goals do not appropriately address the challenges faced by the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By ignoring adult mortality, their achievement would result in relatively small gains in life expectancy. To achieve greater impact, policies in this region must supplement the classical Millennium Development Goals with indicators of adult health, in particular cardiovascular diseases and external causes of death. In addition, countries, with support from the international community, must improve the quality of vital registration data to enable more accurate estimation of the disease burden.
David Stuckler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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financing the Millennium Development Goals for health and beyond sustaining the big push
Globalization and Health, 2010Co-Authors: Gorik Ooms, David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu, Martin MckeeAbstract:Many of the Millennium Development Goals are not being achieved in the world's poorest countries, yet only five years remain until the target date. The financing of these Goals is not merely insufficient; current evidence indicates that the temporary nature of the financing, as well as challenges to coordinating its delivery and directing it to the most needy recipients, hinder achievement of the Goals in countries that may benefit most. Traditional approaches to providing Development assistance for health have not been able to address both prevalent and emergent public health challenges captured in the Goals; these challenges demand sustained forms of financial redistribution through a coordinated mechanism. A global social health protection fund is proposed to address recurring failures in the modern aid distribution mechanism. Such a Fund could use established and effective strategies for aid delivery to mitigate many financial problems currently undermining the Millennium Development Goals initiative.
Gurpreet Rana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Research Guides: Millennium Development Goals: Getting Started
2013Co-Authors: Gurpreet RanaAbstract:Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 international Development Goals that were established by the United Nations member states. This guide provides resources, strategies, and information to learn more and conduct MDG-based research. Overview
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Research Guides: Millennium Development Goals: 3: Gender Equality
2013Co-Authors: Gurpreet RanaAbstract:Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 international Development Goals that were established by the United Nations member states. This guide provides resources, strategies, and information to learn more and conduct MDG-based research.
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Research Guides: Millennium Development Goals: 2: Primary Education
2013Co-Authors: Gurpreet RanaAbstract:Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 international Development Goals that were established by the United Nations member states. This guide provides resources, strategies, and information to learn more and conduct MDG-based research.
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Research Guides: Millennium Development Goals: Sustainable Development Goals
2013Co-Authors: Gurpreet RanaAbstract:Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 international Development Goals that were established by the United Nations member states. This guide provides resources, strategies, and information to learn more and conduct MDG-based research.
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Research Guides: Millennium Development Goals: 5: Maternal Health
2013Co-Authors: Gurpreet RanaAbstract:Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 international Development Goals that were established by the United Nations member states. This guide provides resources, strategies, and information to learn more and conduct MDG-based research.
Willard Cates - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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family planning and the Millennium Development Goals
Science, 2010Co-Authors: Willard Cates, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Wafaa Elsadr, Debra W Haffner, Gladys Kalemazikusoka, Khama Rogo, Tricia Petruney, Megan Davidson E AverillAbstract:The United Nations' (UN's) eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ( 1 ) are widely accepted as the primary path to alleviating poverty worldwide. This month, world leaders convene to assess progress toward these Goals ( 2 ). In the countdown to the MDG 2015 deadline and amid protracted economic recession, we need the most efficient, effective, and evidence-based means to accelerate progress toward all MDGs. Challenges must be considered in concert, and solutions must provide multidimensional dividends for the world's poor, or we risk unwisely dividing limited resources and diluting their impact. As authors from diverse communities, we emphasize here the influence that investments in rights-based family planning can have on achieving the MDGs (for endorsements, see supporting online material).
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Family planning: the essential link to achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals.
Contraception, 2010Co-Authors: Willard CatesAbstract:This commentary provides the reasons why family planning is so crucial in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of ending poverty and hunger universal education gender equality child health maternal health combating HIV/AIDS environmental sustainability and global partnerships. Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
