How domestic hunger and poverty

can be used in the decision-making

process of managers?

United Nations
Millennium Development Goals
Established September
2000
Achieved by 2015

What are the Millennium

Development Goals?
The

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that
respond to the world's main development
challenges.
The MDGs are drawn from the actions and
targets contained in the Millennium
Declaration that was adopted by 189
nations-and signed by 147 heads of state
and governments during the
UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.

Millennium Development Goals 2000

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty

and Hunger
Targets

Halve the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day

Achieve Decent Employment for Women, Men, and Young
People
Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

PROGRESS

The number of people now living

in extreme poverty has declined
by more than half, falling from 1.9
billion in 1990 to 836 million in
2015.
The number of people in the
working middle classliving on
more than $4 a daynearly
tripled between 1991 and 2015.
The proportion of undernourished
people in the developing regions
dropped by almost half since
1990.

Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary

Education
Target

By 2015, all children can complete a full course of primary

schooling, girls and boys

PROGRESS
The

number of out-ofschool children of

primary school age
worldwide fell by
almost half, to an
estimated 57 million
in 2015, down from
100 million in 2000.

Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and

Empower Women
Target

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary

education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

PROGRESS
Gender

parity in
primary school has
been achieved in the
majority of countries.

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality Rate

Target

Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the underfive mortality rate

PROGRESS
The

mortality rate of
children under-five
was cut by more
than half since
1990.

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015,

the maternal mortality ratio
Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

PROGRESS
Since

1990,
maternal mortality
fell by 45 percent
worldwide

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and

Other Diseases

Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread

of HIV/AIDS
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for
HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence
of malaria and other major diseases

PROGRESS

Over 6.2 million malaria deaths have

been averted between 2000 and 2015.
New HIV infections fell by
approximately 40 percent between
2000 and 2013.
By June 2014, 13.6 million people living
with HIV were receiving antiretroviral
therapy (ART) globally, an immense
increase from just 800,000 in 2003.
Between 2000 and 2013, tuberculosis
prevention, diagnosis and treatment
interventions saved an estimated 37
million lives.

Goal 7: Ensure environmental

sustainability

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into

country policies and programs; reverse loss of
environmental resources
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant
reduction in the rate of loss
Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without
sustainable access to safe drinking water and
basic sanitation
By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the
lives of at least 100 million slum-dweller

PROGRESS

Worldwide 2.1 billion

people have gained
access to improved
sanitation.
Globally, 147 countries
have met the MDG
drinking water target, 95
countries have met the
MDG sanitation target and
77 countries have met
both.

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for

development

Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system
Address the Special Needs of the Least Developed Countries
(LDC)
Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries
and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing
countries through national and international measures in order to
make debt sustainable in the long term
In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access
to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries
In co-operation with the private sector, make available the
benefits of new technologies, especially information and
communications

PROGRESS
Official

development
assistance from
developed countries
increased 66 percent
in real terms from
2000 and 2014,
reaching $135.2
billion.

Progress of MDGs

Uneven progress between countries in the world

China and India making steady progress
Sub-Saharan African countries are at major risk of not
meeting 2015 deadline
Global uncertainties of the Global Financial Crisis and
Climate Change are major challenges to reaching goals

Private sector investment and

MDGs

Why firms should contribute

toward achievement of the MDGs
1.
2.
3.

Stable and secure business environment for

both domestics and foreign firm
Firms have the opportunity to manage direct
cost and risks
New business opportunities