Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals make up an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives and is the result of the agreement of world leaders at the meeting of the Millennium Summit in September 2000. For each goal one or more targets have been set, with 2015 being designated as the compliance or target date using 1990 as a benchmark.
The goals are as follows:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target for 2015: Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger.