THE STATE OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

MDG 1: ERADICATE EXTREME PROVERTY AND HUNGER

• MDG Interview: Namanga Ngongi
• Introduction
• Data
• Namanga Ngongi: The promise of the smallholder farmer: fighting hunger and poverty
• Robert B.Zoellick: Recovering lost ground

MDG 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

• Introduction
• Data
• Anthony Lake: For children, education is almost everything
• Nicholas Negroponte: Changing the world one laptop at a time

MDG 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

• Introduction
• Data
• Kanayo F. Nwanze: The world is fed on the backs of rural women
• Louise Mushikiwabo: It’s time to stand up and take action

MDG 4: REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

• Introduction
• Data
• Jens Stoltenberg: Real progress possible if we work together
• Julian Lob-Levyt: Prevention is better than cure

MDG 5: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

• Introduction
• Data
• Karl Hofmann: Our progress is built on sand
• Mary Robinson: Time to step up efforts to improve maternal health

MDG 6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA & OTHER DISEASES

• Introduction
• Data
• Michel Sidibé: Getting to zero
• Michel Kazatchkine: Time to redouble our efforts to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria

MDG 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

• Introduction
• Data
• Achim Steiner: Charting a green economic path
• Vandana Shiva: The elusive search for sustainability

MDG 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

• Introduction
• Data
• Andris Piebalgs: Working in partnership for success
• Sadako Ogata: Developing global partnerships to attain MDG’s