GoalEight
Develop a Global Partnership for Development
The United Nations Millennium Declaration represents a global social compact: developing countries will do more
to ensure their own development, and developed countries will support them through aid, debt relief and better
opportunities for trade. Progress in each of these areas has already begun to yield results. But developed countries
have fallen short of targets they have set for themselves. To achieve the Millennium Development Goals,
increased aid and debt relief must be accompanied by further opening of trade, accelerated transfer of technology
and improved employment opportunities for the growing ranks of young people in the developing world.
Source: UN MDG Report 2005
What are the targets?
Goal 8 of the Millennium Development Goals sets out by the year 2015 to:- Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction -- nationally and internationally.
- Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
- Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States.
- Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term.
- In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth.
- In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.
- In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies -- especially information and communications technologies.
National Networks
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