From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 379; no. 9832; pp. 2206 - 2211
• Main Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 09.06.2012; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Carbon dioxide; Conservation of Natural Resources; Developing Countries; Earth; Emission standards; Global Health; Goals; Greenhouse gases; Health Priorities; Healthy People Programs; Human Rights; Humans; Internal Medicine; International Cooperation; LDCs; Population Growth; Poverty; Problem solving; Society; Sustainable development; Technological change; United Nations

By 2015, most countries will have made meaningful progress towards most of the goals. [...]for more than a decade, the MDGs have remained a focus of global policy debates and national policy planning. Rather than relying on so-called aid voluntarism, in which countries announce their individual aid...