2000 A Better World for All: Progress towards the international development goals

The goals for international development address that most compelling of human desires – a world free of poverty and free of the misery that poverty breeds. This report focuses on seven goals, which, if achieved in the next 15 years, will improve the lives of millions of people. In words and pictures, with numbers and charts, it describes progress towards the goals, what has been achieved and the effort required to reach them.

Contents:

Foreword

Setting the goals

Poverty

Education

Gender equality

Infant and child mortality

Maternal mortality

Reproductive health

Environment

What it will take to achieve the goals

Notes and sources

Indicators for the international development goals