Human development report 2003 : millenium development goals : a compact among nations to end human poverty / [director and editor-in-chief Sakiko Fukuda-Parr].

Contributor(s): Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko, 1950- | United Nations Development Programme Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2003. Description: xv, 367 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cmISBN: 0195219155; 9780195219159; 0195219880; 9780195219883Subject(s): Economic development -- Social aspects -- Periodicals | Quality of life -- Periodicals | Poverty -- Government policy -- Periodicals | Economic development -- Social aspects -- Statistics | Quality of life -- Statistics | Poverty -- Statistics | Developing countries -- Social conditions | Developing countries -- Economic conditionsDDC classification: 362.505 Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC Overview: The Millennium development compact -- The Millennium development goals -- Priority challenges in meeting the goals -- Overcoming structural barriers to growth - to achieve the goals -- Public policies to improve people's health and education -- Private finance and the provision of health, education and water -- Public policies to ensure enrivonmental sustainability -- Mobilizing grass-roots support of the goals -- Policy, not charity: what rich countries and do the achieve the goals -- Millennium development goal indicators -- Human development indicators .

Summary: In September 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit proposed eight Millennium Development Goals to encourage policy change toward poverty. The goals seek to offer concrete ideas on how each country can develop an action plan to pull itself into a higher stastical bracket in key demographic areas, such as halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, halving adult illiteracy, or enrolling boys and girls in primary schools by 2015.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reference Section	Non-fiction	362.505 HUM 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		13769

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC Overview: The Millennium development compact --
The Millennium development goals --
Priority challenges in meeting the goals --
Overcoming structural barriers to growth - to achieve the goals --
Public policies to improve people's health and education --
Private finance and the provision of health, education and water --
Public policies to ensure enrivonmental sustainability --
Mobilizing grass-roots support of the goals --
Policy, not charity: what rich countries and do the achieve the goals --
Millennium development goal indicators --
Human development indicators .

In September 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit proposed eight Millennium Development Goals to encourage policy change toward poverty. The goals seek to offer concrete ideas on how each country can develop an action plan to pull itself into a higher stastical bracket in key demographic areas, such as halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, halving adult illiteracy, or enrolling boys and girls in primary schools by 2015.