Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America : Preliminary Results
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been adopted by the international community as a series of development targets to be accomplished over the period 1990-2015. The MDGs are an expanded set of the original International Development Goals (...
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okr-10986-104032021-04-23T14:02:50Z Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America : Preliminary Results World Bank DEVELOPMENT GOALS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES SOCIAL INDICATORS POPULATION & DEMOGRAPHY URBANIZATION POVERTY ASSESSMENT PRIMARY EDUCATION POVERTY REDUCTION GENDER EQUALITY CHILD MORTALITY POLICIES MENTAL HEALTH HIV AIDS PREVENTION ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP ANNUAL RATE CHILD MORTALITY COUNTRY LEVEL DEVELOPMENT GOALS DISEASES EXTREME POVERTY GROWTH RATE INFANT MORTALITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LIFE EXPECTANCY MALARIA MALNUTRITION MATERNAL HEALTH MATERNAL MORTALITY MORTALITY NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP POPULATION GROWTH POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES PRIMARY EDUCATION SANITATION SOCIAL INDICATORS TELEPHONES UNDER 5 MORTALITY UNEMPLOYMENT URBANIZATION The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been adopted by the international community as a series of development targets to be accomplished over the period 1990-2015. The MDGs are an expanded set of the original International Development Goals (IDGs), which were initially put forward by the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD. The present set of MDGs consists of 8 broad goals, with 18 targets and 48 indicators (see box). In this note, we assess the feasibility of reaching these goals in Latin America using SimSIP Goals, a simulator part of a broader set of tools originally designed to help Governments prepare Poverty Reduction Strategies. In order to compute future values for poverty and social indicators, the simulator takes into account projections for future GDP growth, population growth, and urbanization, and elasticities of poverty and social indicators to these variables. The elasticities for social indicators are based on regressions from world-wide panel data, while those for poverty and extreme poverty are based on data for Latin America. For non-monetary indicators, time trends are also estimated from country-level data2. The hypotheses for urbanization and population growth follow baseline scenarios from the United Nations. 2012-08-13T11:21:56Z 2012-08-13T11:21:56Z 2002-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/09/2512193/reaching-millennium-development-goals-latin-america-preliminary-results http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10403 English en breve; No. 8 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean |
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DEVELOPMENT GOALS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES SOCIAL INDICATORS POPULATION & DEMOGRAPHY URBANIZATION POVERTY ASSESSMENT PRIMARY EDUCATION POVERTY REDUCTION GENDER EQUALITY CHILD MORTALITY POLICIES MENTAL HEALTH HIV AIDS PREVENTION ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP ANNUAL RATE CHILD MORTALITY COUNTRY LEVEL DEVELOPMENT GOALS DISEASES EXTREME POVERTY GROWTH RATE INFANT MORTALITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LIFE EXPECTANCY MALARIA MALNUTRITION MATERNAL HEALTH MATERNAL MORTALITY MORTALITY NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP POPULATION GROWTH POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES PRIMARY EDUCATION SANITATION SOCIAL INDICATORS TELEPHONES UNDER 5 MORTALITY UNEMPLOYMENT URBANIZATION |
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DEVELOPMENT GOALS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES SOCIAL INDICATORS POPULATION & DEMOGRAPHY URBANIZATION POVERTY ASSESSMENT PRIMARY EDUCATION POVERTY REDUCTION GENDER EQUALITY CHILD MORTALITY POLICIES MENTAL HEALTH HIV AIDS PREVENTION ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP ANNUAL RATE CHILD MORTALITY COUNTRY LEVEL DEVELOPMENT GOALS DISEASES EXTREME POVERTY GROWTH RATE INFANT MORTALITY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LIFE EXPECTANCY MALARIA MALNUTRITION MATERNAL HEALTH MATERNAL MORTALITY MORTALITY NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP POPULATION GROWTH POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES PRIMARY EDUCATION SANITATION SOCIAL INDICATORS TELEPHONES UNDER 5 MORTALITY UNEMPLOYMENT URBANIZATION World Bank Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America : Preliminary Results |
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
have been adopted by the international community as a series
of development targets to be accomplished over the period
1990-2015. The MDGs are an expanded set of the original
International Development Goals (IDGs), which were initially
put forward by the Development Assistance Committee of the
OECD. The present set of MDGs consists of 8 broad goals,
with 18 targets and 48 indicators (see box). In this note,
we assess the feasibility of reaching these goals in Latin
America using SimSIP Goals, a simulator part of a broader
set of tools originally designed to help Governments prepare
Poverty Reduction Strategies. In order to compute future
values for poverty and social indicators, the simulator
takes into account projections for future GDP growth,
population growth, and urbanization, and elasticities of
poverty and social indicators to these variables. The
elasticities for social indicators are based on regressions
from world-wide panel data, while those for poverty and
extreme poverty are based on data for Latin America. For
non-monetary indicators, time trends are also estimated from
country-level data2. The hypotheses for urbanization and
population growth follow baseline scenarios from the United Nations. |
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America : Preliminary Results |
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America : Preliminary Results |
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America : Preliminary Results |
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America : Preliminary Results |
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America : Preliminary Results |
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reaching the millennium development goals in latin america : preliminary results |
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2012 |
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