UN Millennium Development Goals:Textbook Pages: 302

In order to reduce the disparities between LDCs and MDCs, the United Nations Development Program set up the UN Millennium Development Goals, set to be obtained by the end of 2015. This project was divided into eight different key goals, with a series of measurable health and economic indicators for each target.List of Goals (with Targets):1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger: Halve the proportion of people living on low wages. Achieve employment for men, women, and young people. Halve the proportion of hungry people.2. Achieve Universal Primary Education: All children are able to complete a full course of primary schooling.3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women: Eliminate gender disparity in education and employment.4. Reduce Child Mortality Rates: Reduce the mortality rate of children under the age of five by two-thirds.5. Improve Maternal Health: Reduce the maternal mortality rate by three quarters. Achieve universal access to reproductive health.6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases: Have halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. Achieve universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment. Have halted and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability: Integrate sustainable development into country policies. Reduce biodiversity loss. Halve the proportion of the population without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Achieve a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers.8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development: Develop a fair trade and financial system. Address the special needs of developing countries. Address the special needs of landlocked countries. Deal with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures. Provide access to essential drugs. Make available the benefits of new technologies.Proportion of Population Living On Less Than $1.25 a Day in 2005 and 1990:

Case Study: IndiaIndia is a country that suffers from many things, like low wages, overpopulation, and dowry deaths. However, the UNDP has set out to solve Indias problems. The following examples show how the UNDP has attempted to accomplish the first goal, which is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Program, which is funded by the UNDP, guarantees the right to a minimum of a hundred days of paid work a year to farmers. This program has provided work to around fifty million households, with half of them being women. A joint program between the UNDP and the government of Nagaland, a province in India, has introduced sustainable land management practices, eliminating the old slash-and-burn system. This has improved the food supply, the amount of jobs in the primary sector, and the land usage of the farms.

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