" UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) " Do you think that they're realistic and attainable ?

Question

" UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) " Do you think that they're realistic and attainable ?

Answer 1

If it has to be realistic and attainable, nobody puts a pen on a paper. At least, we can have self-gratification writing lofty things and creating'Utopia' on paper. Another thing, when we go astray we can know how far we moved from the stated position and that is a good input.

Answer 2

Most of the MDGs are attainable and others are simply too ambitious.

Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Targets: 1.)Halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty between 1990 and 2015. 2.) Halve the proportion below the minimum level of dietary energy consumption and halve the proportion of underweight children under five years old.

This goal is unlikely to be met by 2015. Poverty is still the main problem in Africa and most of the developing countries.

All other goals, I think, are attainable.