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Download Solution PDFMillennium Development Goal 8 - 'To develop global partnership for development' has the following targets:
(A) To address special needs of least developed countries.
(B) To halve by 2015 the proportion of population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
(C) To deal exhaustively with debt problem of developing nations.
(D) To provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing world in collaboration with private sector.
(E) To have significant improvement in the lives of 100 mn slum dwellers.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
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Download Solution PDFThe Millennium Development Goals were eight international development goals for the year 2015 that had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000.
Key Points
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) commit the international community to an expanded vision of poverty reduction and pro-poor growth, one that vigorously places human development at the center of social and economic progress in all countries.
Important Points
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
- Target 8. A: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.
- Target 8. B: Address the special needs of least developed countries.
- Target 8. C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.
- Target 8.D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries.
- Target 8. E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.
- Target 8. F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.
Hence the given options A, C, and D are correct with respect to Millennium Development Goal 8 - 'To develop a global partnership for development.
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