M-E Policies and MDGS

1 At the Millennium Assembly in September 2000, the world’s leaders signed a global compact to reduce extreme poverty in the Millennium Declaration. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are drawn from the Millennium Declaration, call for a decisive reduction of extreme poverty in its key dimensions – income, hunger, disease, environmental degradation, and lack of access to basic services and infrastructure. Importantly, the MDGs specify a clear timetable for progress, with 2015 as the main deadline for halving poverty.They also specify that rich and poor countries are committed to working together to achieve those goals.