Millennium Development Goal 8
The Global Partnership for Development: Time to Deliver
MDG Gap Task Force Report 2011
United Nations
Available online PDF [98p.] at: http://bit.ly/qm5twO
“……..With only four years remaining in which to achieve the key targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most of the world’s Heads of State and Government came to the United Nations in September 2010 to take stock of progress made thus far. Despite significant setbacks owing to the 2008-2009 global economic crisis and surges in food and energy prices, it seems that the developing world as a whole will reach many of the MDGs.
However, some countries and regions are not on track to reach the goals and require intensified efforts to reduce poverty and child and maternal mortality rates and to improve access to drinking water and sanitation. The objective of MDG 8 is to assist all developing countries in achieving the goals through a strengthened global partnership for international development cooperation.
The present report describes how that partnership is producing significant results on many fronts, but notes that many important gaps between expectations and delivery remain…..”
Contents
Executive summary
Official development assistance.
Market access (trade)
Debt sustainability
Access to affordable essential medicines
Access to new technologies
Introduction
Action pledged from 2010 forward.
The politics of development partnership pledges
Strengthening coherence in the global partnership.
Time to deliver .
Official development assistance ODA delivery in 2010 and its near-term prospects
Aid allocations by country.
Terms and uses of aid
Increasing aid effectiveness
Multiple modalities of development cooperation
Market access (trade)
The fragile global recovery and its impact on trade.
Trade finance
Trade-restrictive measures.
Tighter restrictions on labour mobility
The Doha Round at risk of failure.
Market access indicators .
Tariff barriers and tariff preferences.
Tariff peaks and escalation
Agriculture subsidies in OECD countries.
Debt sustainability
The debt situation and financial flows to developing countries .
Progress in the implementation of debt relief initiatives.
Vulnerable countries and countries in debt distress
Access to affordable essential medicines
Availability and prices of essential medicines
Medicines for the treatment of chronic diseases.
Paediatric medicines.
Affordability of essential medicines.
Promoting the use of generic medicines
Public health systems
Global initiatives to improve access to essential medicines
Improving access to paediatric medicines
Greater involvement of the pharmaceutical industry
Innovation and intellectual property
The Medicines Patent Pool.
Pooled procurement
African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation.
Local production of essential medicines
Access to new technologies
Access to ICT services
Enhancing the development impact of ICT.
Privatization and liberalization of ICT
National broadband strategies
The role of technologies for e-government
Enhancing global measurement and monitoring
Access to technology and funding to address climate change
Access to new approaches to disaster risk reduction.
Goals 1 to 7
MDG Goals:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
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