GOALS AND INDICATORS

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar o day
• Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education

• Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

3. Promote gender equality and empower women

• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2005

4. Reduce child mortality

• Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

5. Improve maternal health

• Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• Halt and begin the reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Halt and begin to reverse the incidences of malaria and other major diseases

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
• Reduce py half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
• Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020

8. Develop a global partnership for development

• Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and nondiscriminatory. 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 corporation with the developing countries, develop decent an productive work for youth
• In corporation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
• In corporation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies-especially information and communications technologies