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Millennium Development Goals at 10

A decade's worth of targeted accomplishments shows extreme poverty can be eliminated















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Without question, the MDGs have spurred remarkable progress, but the challenges remain huge. Success will require plans at the September MDG Summit that concretely link governments, businesses, NGOs and individuals to clear national strategies. What might have been a mere get-together a decade ago to ring in the new millennium could yet prove to be the decisive organizing principle for ending extreme poverty in our time.



This article was originally published with the title Millennium Development Goals at 10.



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Jeffrey D. Sachs is director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University (www.earth.columbia.edu).


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  1. 1. charlesbence 05:27 AM 5/25/10

    fantastic to read about the true progress being made in the fight against malaria. CDC says as many as 300 million cases of malaria occur each year with approximately 1 million deaths. incredible to learn that 200 million malaria preventing sleeping nets have been distrubuted to far!

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