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Public Spending on Education and Health Care and the MDGs
Government expenditure policy will have a key role in determining whether countries meet the MDGs. In many countries, the government will have a central role in ensuring that its citizens, especially the poor, have access to education and health services by either providing these services itself or financing private sector provision.

Revenue Composition and Growth
An efficient and fair tax system is an important component of a progrowth strategy. While foreign aid can make an important contribution, the main source of finance for a country’s public expenditure must be its own tax revenue.

Economic Growth, Sustainable Development, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Economic growth is essential for sustainable development and improving social outcomes.4 Growth usually—but not always—benefits the poor; in about 90 percent of the cases in which countries have experienced per capita GDP growth of at least 2 percent per year over a five-year period, the poor also experienced rising real incomes.

5.4 Solidarity in a globalizing world: Working Out of Poverty
Despite efforts to reduce the burden of excessive debt, many lowincome countries are still using a substantial portion of their resources to pay interest and repay the capital of earlier borrowing.

Microfinance 2015: Panel Focuses on the Future and Outlook of Microfinance
Where will microfinance be in 2015? What is the future and challenges of microfinance? The first discussion held at the launch of the International Year of Microcredit 2005 focused on these key questions.

Reaching the MDGs: A Concrete Look at the Challenge of More Effective Aid (Not Just More Aid)
Some acronyms never make it into the mainstream, and forever remain part of the secret language of a closed group of people that share the same profession, hobby or interest. But everyone is talking about the MDGs, or Millennium Development Goals.

2.5 Conclusion: Economic Report on Africa 2007
Despite notable economic recovery in Africa since the turn of the 21st century, the continent still faces important challenges in attaining its development goals.

2.3 Social Development I: Economic Report on Africa 2007
While growth has recovered on the continent, the gains in terms of social development and poverty reduction are still limited. This sub-section reviews the evidence on social development through the lenses of the MDGs. Following a discussion of progress and challenges for the various goals, the sub-section provides a more detailed discussion of the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS. More details on progress towards the MDGs in Africa is provided in various ECA documents, including a forthcoming report (UNECA 2007), as well as reports by other United Nations publications (e.g. UNDP and UNICEF 2002).

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2.0 Recent Economic Performance in Africa and Prospects for 2007: Economic Report on Africa 2007
African countries still face the critical challenge of raising the rate of GDP growth and sustaining high growth rates over an extended period in order to accelerate progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While growth has recovered over the past few years, very few countries have achieved and maintained the growth rates necessary to reduce poverty. Africa still tails behind other regions in most measures of human development.

2.3 Social Development I: Economic Report on Africa 2007
While growth has recovered on the continent, the gains in terms of social development and poverty reduction are still limited. This sub-section reviews the evidence on social development through the lenses of the MDGs. Following a discussion of progress and challenges for the various goals, the sub-section provides a more detailed discussion of the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS. More details on progress towards the MDGs in Africa is provided in various ECA documents, including a forthcoming report (UNECA 2007), as well as reports by other United Nations publications (e.g. UNDP and UNICEF 2002).

Unleashing entrepreneurship: Making business work for the poor
There has been a big change in the United Nations's engagement with the private sector influenced by its stewardship of the Millennium Development Goals. It was the urgent need to enhance the contribution of the private sector in achieving the MDGs that prompted Secretary General Kofi Annan to appoint a commission to examine how the role of the private sector in this major global effort could be maximized.

Realising the potential of microfinance
Microfinance is a key strategy in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and in building global financial systems that meet needs of most poor people. Although microfinance has demonstrated the potential to reduce poverty, its impacts have varied. Perhaps as a result of these inconsistencies, few donors have prioritised microfinance in their strategies to achieve the MDGs.

Redefining Microfinance as a Strategy to Achieve the MDGs: International Year of Microcredit Report Advocates Shift from Poverty Alleviation to Wealth Creation
With microfinance gaining attention for its vital role in eradicating poverty, the International Year of Microcredit recently released a report, "Microfinance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Reader's Guide to the Millennium Project and Other UN Documents", to provide further background and support for microfinance initiatives.

Reaching the MDGs: A Concrete Look at the Challenge of More Effective Aid (Not Just More Aid)
Some acronyms never make it into the mainstream, and forever remain part of the secret language of a closed group of people that share the same profession, hobby or interest. But everyone is talking about the MDGs, or Millennium Development Goals.

Public Spending on Education and Health Care and the MDGs
Government expenditure policy will have a key role in determining whether countries meet the MDGs. In many countries, the government will have a central role in ensuring that its citizens, especially the poor, have access to education and health services by either providing these services itself or financing private sector provision.

Moving Forward: International Community
Freer access to industrial country markets and greater and more predictable aid are needed to support sustainable development (included under Goal 8 of the MDGs).

SME - MILLENNIUM REGION IN THE GABONESE REPUBLIC
WUSME recommends to add supplementary series to the UN Millennium Villages Project by Regions of Economic-, Social-, and Enviromental Excellence. The UN Millennium Villages in African Countries under the auspices of the United Nations and the Earth Institute are a positive example for efficient actions to reach the Millennium Development Goals - MDGs. WUSME WORÉD UNION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES’s proposal aims at amending the Millennium Village Project by Regions of Economic Excellence based on a favorable environment for the development of Micro- Small and Medium Enterprises. The basic features of such Regions will briefly be outlined in this article.

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