CAMBRIDGE – In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which evolved into a set of concrete targets called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These ambitious targets – ranging from halving extreme poverty and reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters to achieving universal primary schooling and halting (and beginning to reverse) the spread of HIV/AIDS – are supposed to be met by the end of 2015.
美国剑桥—2000年，189个国家一致接受了联合国千年宣言，并将其纳入了被称为千年发展目标（MDG）的一系列具体计划中。这些雄心勃勃的计划——从将贫困降低一半和让产妇死亡率减少四分之三到让所有孩子都接受小学教育和让艾滋病（毒）停止传播（甚至减少）——应该在2015年底之前完成。随着截止期的临近，发展专家们开始讨论新的问题：接下去怎么办？