World Bank Sees Progress on Development Goals
25 April 2010
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
The World Bank says most developing countries have made important progress toward the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals.
Last week the international lender released its yearly World Development Indicators. Hundreds of indicators are used to measure progress in areas such as education, health, poverty, the environment and trade.
One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.
Out of eighty-seven countries with data available, forty-nine seem likely to reach that goal. "Extreme poverty" is defined as earning less than one dollar a day.
Another goal is to make education available to all young children. The report shows that in two thousand seven, seven out of ten children lived in developing countries that had met or were close to meeting that goal.
Also, thirty-nine countries have achieved or are likely to achieve the goal of reducing child death rates. The target is a two-thirds reduction by twenty fifteen.
And the report from the World Bank shows the first reduction in AIDS-related deaths.
But even with all the progress, there is still a long way to go to reach all eight goals approved by world leaders ten years ago. This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa, which falls behind on all of the goals.
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