Millennium Development Goals!

Goal 8By Aideen Galligan,Caitlin Windrum,Eilíse

Munroe!

Development education

Development education is an area of study that aims to give pupils an

understanding of their involvement in world affairs.

Goals

Goal 1-eradicate extreme hunger and poverty.Goal 2-achieve universal primary education.Goal 3-promote gender equality and empower women.Goal 4-reduce child mortality.Goal 5-improve maternal health.Goal 6-combat HIV, Aids, Malaria and other diseases.Goal 7-ensure environmental sustainability.Goal 8- develop a global partnership for development.

Goal 8

Develop a global partnership for development.

Goal 8 targets• Address the special needs of least

developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states.

• Deal with the developing countries debt.

• In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.

• Make available benefits of new technologies.

Aid

• Aid is normally measured as a percentage of each country's gross national income per person and, it was agreed internationally in 1969 that the target figure would be 0.7%. Between 1990 and 2001, the average figure for developed country aid fell from 0.33% to 0.22% but since the late 1990s and through the early 2000s, the figures have begun to increase again, but not at the levels needed to achieve the MDG targets.

• Of the 49 least developed countries, 31 now receive less aid than they did in 1990 (8.5% of their own GDP as opposed to 12.9%).

• For most donor countries, aid remains well below the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income. five donor countries have reached or exceeded the UN target: Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.

Aid

Medicine • In May 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) obtained an agreement from pharmaceutical companies to donate at least 10% of their vaccine production to the third world countries.

WHO’s Activities• They have developed global

indicators for availability, price and affordability of essential medicines.

• The World Health Organization also provides the pharmaceutical manufacturers with the information that they need to produce quality, safe and effective essential medicines

World trade

• Opening up markets for developing countries is a major target in the Millennium Development Goal goal 8.Increased aid and higher debt relief will make a small difference but changes in world trading and pricing will benefit developing countries in a long term way.

• The share of world trade belonging to economies that are developing has increased to over 40 per cent, from 35 per cent in 2000.Developing countries are gaining access to the markets of the developed countries. The amount of developed country imports from developing countries reached up to 80 per cent in 2008.This is allowing the developed world and the developing world to develop a partnership for development.

• Least developed countries are benefiting from tax Reductions. Developed countries’ taxes on imports of Agricultural products, textiles and clothing have remained high. However the least developed countries are continuing to benefit from tax reductions, especially on agricultural products where tax is 1.6 per cent as opposed to 8 per cent for other developing countries.

Debt

• Over 75% of the high priority countries as regards the MDGs are highly indebted - debt relief is considered vital in terms of giving much needed funds for development to developing countries. The overall objective is to create a situation where no such 'high priority country' has a debt problem it cannot effectively manage. The main argument from campaigners for debt relief are that such debt are unjust.

• Debt burdens have eased for developing countries and remain well below historical levels. Forty countries qualify for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative. Thirty-five of them have had future debt repayments reduced by $57 billion, and 28 have received additional assistance of $25 billion under the multilateral Debt Relief Initiative. But the existing major debt relief initiatives are coming to an end, and a number of low-income and small middle-income countries are still at risk of debt distress.

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