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Article | March/April 2013
Own the Goals: What the Millennium Development Goals Have Accomplished
By: John McArthur

For more than a decade, the Millennium Development Goals — a set of time-bound targets agreed on by heads of state in 2000 — have unified, galvanized, and expanded efforts to help the world’s poorest people. The overarching vision of cutting the amount of extreme poverty worldwide in half by 2015, anchored in a series of specific goals, has drawn attention and resources to otherwise forgotten issues. The MDGs have mobilized government and business leaders to donate tens of billions of dollars to life-saving tools, such as antiretroviral drugs and modern mosquito nets. The goals have promoted cooperation among public, private, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), providing a common language and bringing together disparate actors….

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