Millennium Summit in September 2000
Largest gathering of world leaders Adopted United Nations Millennium Declaration to foster global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting a series of targets with a deadline of 2015
These targets were called Millennium Development Goals
MDGs
1
targets poor directly, those living on less than one USD a day
2-7
Focus on the underlying causes of poverty; housimg, employment, health care, education, gender inequality, poor housing conditions
8
Develop global partnership
Progress
Special interest given to few countries:
- Five most populous countries - Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan - As they contain the most number of people
- Countries of former Soviet Union in Central and West Asia due to changing political environment
see also: Sustainable Development Goals MDGs to SDGs