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COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2017

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3.

Efforts on Poverty Alleviation

In this section poverty alleviation efforts in the world with a focus on Millennium Development

Goals (henceforth MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (henceforth SDGs) will be

elaborated first. Afterwards, poverty alleviation efforts in the OIC Region will be summarized.

3.1.

Efforts in the World

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3.1.1.

Millennium Development Goals

In 2000, the world agreed upon theMDGs. This agreement reflect the world leaders commitment

to a new global partnership to ending poverty and hunger, improving education, gender, health

and promoting sustainable development. Under this understanding, eight goals with a deadline

of 2015 were set. These goals, namely MDGs, were:

1.

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

2.

Achieve universal primary education

3.

Promote gender equality and empower women

4.

Reduce child mortality

5.

Improve maternal health

6.

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

7.

Ensure environmental sustainability

8.

Develop a global partnership for development

Despite its multisectoral approach, the main objective of MDGs was poverty alleviation. Goal 1

was directly, the remaining were indirectly addressing poverty. In fact, Goal 2,3,4,5,6,7, and 8

under the MDGs were priority areas that must be addressed to eliminate extreme poverty. The

aim was to make the nations to accept the MDGs as national goals and increase the coherence

and consistency of national policies and programs while trying to achieve these goals.

Under the MDGs, 21 targets and 60 indicators were officially defined to monitor the progress of

the countries. The progress during the MDG period (2000-2015) in the selected indicators is

summarized below:

Under the first goal, extreme poverty (less than $1.25 a day) declined significantly from 36

percent in 1990 to 14 per cent as of year 2015. The proportion of undernourished people in the

developing regions has fallen by almost half from 23 per cent to 13 per cent in the same period.

Under the goal 2, the primary school net enrolment rate has reached to 92 per cent in 2015, up

from 81 per cent in 1990. Under goal 3, the target to eliminate gender disparity in primary

secondary and tertiary education almost fully achieved. Under goal 4, the global under-five

mortality rate has declined by more than half from 90 to 46 deaths per 1,000 live births. Under

goal 5, the maternal mortality ratio has declined from 380 deaths per 100,000 live births to 210

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This section is mostly adapted from the previous work of COMCEC & IDB (2015). The authors of this report

made minimal contribution to the content.