Millennium Development Goal 8

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP

FOR DEVELOPMENT

• 6 aims

• A – Fair Trade• B – Targeting Least Developed Countries (LDCs)• C – Equal Spreading of Aid• D – Deal with Debt• E – Improve Access to Essential Medicines/Drugs• F – Improve Access to Technology

AIMS

Target A - Develop a fair and non-discriminatory trading and financial system

Target B - Address the special needs of Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

Target C - Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States

TARGETS/AIMS

TARGETS/AIMS

Target D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries

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

Target F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

Target A - With a few exceptions, all developed countries provide duty-free market access to the exports of LDCs

Average tariffs levied by developed countries continue to decline slightly for developing and least developed countries.

More than half of the exports of LDCs benefit from reduced tariffs, giving LDCs a significant competitive advantage.

PROGRESS SO FAR

Target B and C - Aid money is declining overall, and moving away from the poorest countries.

Aid from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries increased following 2000, reaching 0.32% of donors’ combined gross national income in 2010, before declining to 0.31% in 2011 and 0.29% in 2012. In 2012,

bilateral aid to least developed countries fell by 13%.Aid from countries in the west is decreasing.

PROGRESS SO FAR

Target 5 : Target 4:

PROGRESS SO FAR

TARGET 6:

Achievement of the Goals is affected by less aid money overall, with the poorest countries affected the most.

In 2012, net aid from developed to developing countries dropped by 4% compared to 2011, which was 2% below 2010 levels.

In 2012, bilateral aid to these countries fell by 13%

Trade conditions are improvingDebt servicing has declinedCrucial aid is decreasing

WHERE FROM HERE?

Target 4: Debt payments have dramatically decreased over the past few years and is estimated to meet the target by 2015. This has been a success.

Target5: From the malaria graph we can see that the disease has decreased but not enough to reach the target by 2015. This target is lagging short and so more funding needs to be put into medical drugs.

Target 6: By 2015 it is estimated that southern Asia will have 11 out of 100 people using the internet. As you can see from the graph the developing and developed regions are progressing on this target but more attention needs to be payed to the “blue” areas, these are barely progressing.

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