Reaching the Millennium Development Goals
IMF Study: Growth Boost Key to Reaching MDGs
The global economic crisis has set back progress toward the Millennium Development Goals and, to regain momentum, it is vital that strong and sustained global economic growth be restored, IMF economists said. Read more »
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Focus on Steps to Speed Progress Toward MDGs
World leaders meet in New York next week to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut poverty and improve education around the globe, and forge a global partnership for development by a 2015 deadline. Read more »
Finance & Development September 2010, Vol. 47, No. 3 »
Time for a Rethink
'It is hard to object to the
Millennium Development
Goals, but that doesn’t
mean they lay out an
effective blueprint for
development' Jagdish Bhagwati
AT the start of what became known as the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, many proposed it be named the Millennium Round. But that suggestion went nowhere after a wit observed that this could mean it would take a millennium before the negotiating nations would reach consensus to close the Round. Read more »
Finance & Development, September 2010, Vol. 47, No. 3 »
Crisis Puts Millennium Development Goals Further at Risk
The global economic crisis will take a serious long-term toll on development and has hampered progress toward all eight Millennium Development Goals. But cutting extreme poverty in half in developing countries—the number one Millennium Development Goal (MDG)—can still be achieved by the target date of 2015, predicts a new IMF–World Bank report. Read more »
IMF and Low-Income Countries »
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IMF Helps Ethiopia Tackle Falling Exports, Remittances, and Investment
Six months after Addis Ababa approached the IMF for a loan to deal with the effects of the crisis, the Fund’s resident representative to Ethiopia explains how the country is weathering the slump and its prospects for the future.
News
September 21, 2010
Factsheet: The IMF & the Millennium Development Goals
September 20, 2010
Blog: Making up for lost time: getting back on track to the Millennium Development Goals By Hugh Bredenkamp and Catherine Pattillo
IMF Survey: IMF Urges Countries to Redouble Growth Drive, Revive MDGs
Speech: Address to Opening Plenary of United Nations Summit on Millennium Development Goals
The IMF and Civil Society: Urgent Action Needed to Reach the Millennium Development Goals
September 16, 2010
IMF Says Stronger Growth Key to Achieving Millennium Development Goals
Reaching the Millennium Development Goals—Macroeconomic Prospects and Challenges in Low-Income Countries
Reaching the MDGs: An Action Plan for Trade
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)
September 15, 2010
Financing the Fund’s Concessional Lending to Low-Income Countries
September 3, 2010
IMF Support for Low-Income Countries
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Millennium Development Goals Summit
20-22 Spetember 2010 — New York
Media Stakeout: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF - We Can End Poverty 2015, Millennium Development Goals
Strauss-Kahn on the human cost of the unemployment crisis 
Reaching the MDGs: Macroeconomic Prospects and Challenges in Low-Income Countries
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