By International Monetary Fund, World Bank
The 2007 worldwide tracking file at the Millennium improvement objectives (MDGs) assesses the contributions of constructing nations, built international locations, and overseas monetary associations towards assembly universally agreed improvement commitments. Fourth in a chain of annual experiences best as much as 2015, this year's file reports key advancements of the prior yr, rising priorities, and gives an in depth region-by-region photograph of functionality within the constructing areas of the area, drawing on symptoms for poverty, schooling, gender equality, well-being, and different pursuits. Subtitled "Confronting the demanding situations of Gender Equality and Fragile States", this year's record highlights key thematic areas-gender equality and empowerment of ladies (the 3rd MDG) and the exact difficulties of fragile states, the place severe poverty is more and more centred. The record, that is together issued by means of the area financial institution and the foreign financial Fund, argues that gender equality and the empowerment of girls are valuable to the advance schedule. the reason is, gender equality makes reliable monetary feel and since it is helping strengthen the opposite improvement goals-including schooling, meals, and lowering baby mortality. quick development has been made in a few parts, similar to reaching academic parity for women in basic and secondary college in such a lot international locations. yet in lots of different dimensions-including political illustration and participation in nonagricultural employment-performance nonetheless falls brief. larger tracking and efforts at mainstreaming gender equality calls for lifelike ambitions, powerful management, technical services, and financing.
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CHIEVED #OLOMBIA¬ $EATHS¬PER¬ ¬LIVE¬BIRTHS 0OOREST¬QUINTILE 2ICHEST¬QUINTILE Source: World Bank staff estimates. Source: DHS surveys. A concerted effort to improve the measurement of infant and child mortality has filled many gaps in the international data set and reveals that many countries still fall short of achieving the target, even where regional averages have been improving. Based on estimates through 2005, only 33 countries are on track to achieve a two-thirds reduction in the mortality rate.
In contrast, in Sub-Saharan Africa poverty incidence hovered around 46 percent between the early 1980s and 1999, and declined to 41 percent in 2004. Despite this better trend, the absolute number of poor is still around 300 million. 1). Latin America and the Caribbean, which started from a higher base, has also sustained an exceptionally strong rate of progress. The number of countries that have achieved universal primary completion increased from 37 in 2000 to 52 in 2005, and this includes some low-income countries: Bolivia, Indonesia, and Kenya.
It takes into account data availability, additionality (does it add new information), and the high costs associated with imposing additional monitoring burdens on already taxed national statistical offices. It also draws on a proposal to refine the existing MDG indicators that was put before the UN Secretary General’s office for consideration in March 2007. Four of the five indicators monitor gender equality in the household; the remaining indicator monitors gender equality in the economy. ",%¬¬ ¬ ¬Recommended additional indicators for MDG3 Household Economy and markets Modifications of official MDG indicators Additional indicators Additional indicators Primary completion rate of girls and boys (MDG2)a Percentage of 15- to 19-year-old girls who are mothers or pregnant with their first childb Labor force participation rates among women and men aged 20–24 and 25–49b Under five mortality rate for girls and boys (MDG4) Percentage of reproductive-age women, and their sexual partners, using modern contraceptives (MDG6) Source: World Bank staff.