OECD - Ending Poverty

With the Millennium Development Goals now just over a year away from their 2015 deadline, the process of designing their successors is taking another important step forward in New York.Under the theme of The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Setting the Stage, delegates at this month’s meeting of the U.N. General Assembly are looking at what the MDGs have achieved so far and discussing what comes next.

For almost a decade-and-a-half, the MDGs have shaped the development agenda, built support for poverty reduction and set concrete goals for measuring progress. There have been impressive achievements: The goal of halving the number of people living in absolute poverty has already been met, and there has been progress in other areas, including reductions in mortality among mothers and the under-fives, improvements in school enrolment for both girls and boys, and a lowering in the rate of HIV infection. But, overall, much still needs to be done if the world is to meet all the MDGs.

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