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The Millennium Development Goals: why they matter to local government

Author(s): Coates, Sue (ed)  |  Cotton, Andrew (ed)

Publisher: WEDC | WELL
Place of publication: Loughborough University, UK
Year: 2004

Series: WELL Briefing Note 8
Collection(s): WELL

Links:

• http://wedc.lboro.ac.uk/resources/well/W...._Why_they_matter.pdf

In September 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit agreed eight time-bound and measurable goals aimed at combating rural and urban poverty, hunger, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. Many of the targets within the goals are set for 2015.

Keywords:
MDGs