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Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
>>Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development

Achieve universal primary education


TARGETS
INDICATORS
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
  • Net enrolment ratio in primary education
  • Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5
  • Literacy rate of 15-24-year-olds

See ADB's Key Indicators 2003 for the most recent status of this goal in ADB's developing member countries.



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