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This report presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the MDGs. With fewer than six years to meet the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the report warns that despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met by 2015. And major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crises.
Although data are not yet available to reveal the full impact of the economic downturn, they point to areas where progress towards the eight goals has slowed or reversed.But the story is not all bleak. The report also portrays the remarkable advances that many countries and regions had made before the economic landscape changed so radically in 2008:
The Report is also available in French and Spanish and will soon become available in the other UN official languages.
See also the companion The MDG Progress Wall Chart 2009.
