Implications for Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs )
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Target 1: Reduce by half the level of 1990 the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day by 2015
- Target 2: Reduce by half the level of 1990 the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
- Target 3: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling by 2015
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
- Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
The Fields of Contributions by Laureates
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
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Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
- Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
- Target 10: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and Sanitation by 2015
- Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
- Target 12.:Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
( Includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction — both nationally and internationally ) - Target 13.:Address the special needs of the least developed countries
( Includes: tariff and quota free access for least developed countries’ exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPCs and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction ) - Target 14.:Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing States
- Target 15.:Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
The Fields of Contributions by Laureates
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Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications