Millennium development holes

摘要

In 2000,189 world leaders committed to eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ranging from halving extreme poverty and hunger, and rolling back killer diseases such as AIDS and malaria, to providing universal primary education. The deadline of 2015 to achieve all these ambitious goals is now rapidly approaching. As a rallying cry that has pushed development up the international political agenda, the goals have been an indisputable success. They have also, for better or worse, conferred power and legitimacy on interests within the international aid machine, in particular the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank.