Challenges

Millennium Development Goals Overview – Trends towards meeting the targets of 2015. This is a useful world map with the status on MDG targets
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The Millennium Project: A Sound Strategy for Reaching the MDGs? John Roberts, ODI Is this ‘Big Bang’ strategy realistic? This note welcomes the prospect of more aid for the world’s most important project, points to some problems in getting started and to some pitfalls to avoid, and emphasises the need to sustain momentum in poverty reduction after 2015.

"Foreign aid skeptics thrive on pessimism” by Jeffrey D. Sachs" Los Angeles Times, 07 May 2006

"Net Gains” by Jeffrey D. Sachs" New York Times, 29 April 2006

"The magnificent seven" Economist, 27 April 2006

"Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap" (Brookings Papers on Economic Activity No. 2: 117-216, August 2004)

Unkept promises Social Watch, 2005

Challenging the Perceived Wisdom of Jeffrey Sachs, BISA International Political Economy Group (IPEG), 2006.