MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ and the Millennium Development Goals
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all 192 members and a number of international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015 to end poverty. They include reducing extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics, such as HIV/AIDS, and creating a global partnership for development.
The main goal that concerns the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ is MDG 8, building a global partnership for development. More precisely, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ promotes better market access for exports originating from least-developed and developing countries, under the objectives 8.6 and 8.7 dealing duty free and preferential tariffs. However, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ activities are also relevant to other goals, such as MDG 1, whose aim is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. In fact, the MDGs cannot be seen in isolation: they are all interconnected.
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Introduction
International trade can lead to economic growth and development, and the World Trade Organization (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ) is very much at the forefront of efforts to make this happen for developing countries. This, in fact, is what the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ and the Doha Round of trade negotiations are all about. The economic and developmental benefits brought about by the multilateral trading system can go a long way towards helping countries achieve the goals set out in the UN Millennium Declaration to reduce extreme poverty by the year 2015.
This section outlines the relationship between the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It discusses how the attainment of these goals is being assisted by:
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developing countries’ participation in the multilateral trading system
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efforts to increase access to affordable medicine in developing countries
MDG
8: A Global Partnership for Development
Target A Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable,
non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Target B Address the
special needs of the least developed countries
Target C Address the
special needs of landlocked developing countries and small
island developing States
Target D Deal
comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries
Target E In
cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to
affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Target F In
cooperation with the private sector, make available the
benefits of new technologies, especially information and
communication