This article argues that the health-related Millennium Development Goals do not appropriately address the challenges faced by the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By ignoring adult mortality, their achievement would result in relatively small gains in life expectancy. To achieve greater impact, policies in this region must supplement the classical Millennium Development Goals with ...

This year marks a pivotal moment in international efforts to fight extreme poverty. During the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit in 2000, 147 heads of state gathered and adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, panel 1) to address extreme poverty in its many dimensions—income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion—while promoting education, gender equality,...

1. The Millennium Development Goals two-thirds (in relation to the 1990 baseline) or maternal deaths by three-quarters. Reversing the There is only a decade remaining in which to attain the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (Table 1). These goals have the unprecedented support of 189 nations and are a mechanism for holding rich and poor nations accountable for global development...