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Achieving the millennium development goals in the Asia-Pacific region : the role of international assistance
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of international development targets agreed to by members of the United Nations in 2000. The goals aim to improve many of the dimensions of extreme poverty and are to be achieved by 2015. This paper provides an overview of the issues relevant to the achievement of the MDGs in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper begins by discussing the critiques of the MDGs before assessing whether countries in the region are on track to achieve them. Issues relating to data availability and accuracy are discussed and the need to tailor the MDG targets to the special circumstances of some Asia-Pacific countries is examined. The paper proceeds by discussing the role of international assistance via international foreign development aid and non-governmental organisations in the achievement of the MDGs. The paper concludes with some policy implications for the international donor community.
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Asia Pacific viewpointVolume
49Issue
2Pagination
198 - 212Publisher
BlackwellLocation
Oxford, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1360-7456eISSN
1467-8373Language
engPublication classification
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