The UN Millennium Development Goals Report for 2010 (80 page
pdf) is available. Encouraging trends before 2008 had put many
regions on track to achieve at least some of the goals. The
economic growth momentum in developing regions remains strong
and, learning from the many successes of even the most
challenged countries, achieving the MDGs is still within our
grasp: Progress on poverty reduction is still being made,
despite signifi cant setbacks due to the 2008-2009 economic
downturn, and food and energy crises. The developing world as a
whole remains on track to achieve the poverty reduction target
by 2015. The overall poverty rate is still expected to fall to
15 per cent by 2015, which translates to around 920 million
people living under the international poverty line—half the
number in 1990. • Major advances have been made in getting
children into school in many of the poorest countries, most of
them in sub-Saharan Africa. • Remarkable improvements in key
interventions—for malaria and HIV control, and meas