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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
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Develop a global partnership for development


TARGETS
INDICATORS

1. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system (includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction - both nationally and internationally)

2. Address the special needs of the least developed countries (includes tariff and quota-free access for least developed countries' exports; enhanced program of debt relief for HIPCs and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction)

3. Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing States

4. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term



 Official Development Assistance
  • Net ODA, total and to LDCs, as percentage of OECD/DAC donors' gross national income (GNI)
  • Proportion of total bilateral, sector-allocable ODA of OECD/DAC donors to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation)
  • Proportion of bilateral ODA of OECD/DAC donors that is untied· ODA received in landlocked countries as proportion of their GNIs
  • ODA received in small island developing States as proportion of their GNIs
Market Access
  • Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding arms) from developing countries and from LDCs, admitted free of duties
  • Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural products and textiles and clothing from developing countries
  • Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as percentage of their GDP
  • Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity
Debt sustainability
  • Total number of countries that have reached their HIPC decision points and number that have reached their HIPC completion points (cumulative)
  • Debt relief committed under HIPC initiative, US$· Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services
5. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
  • Unemployment rate of 15- to 24-year-olds, each sex and total
6. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
  • Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis
7. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
  • Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population
  • Personal computers in use per 100 population and Internet users per 100 population


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

For information on ADB's work on governance and ADB's assistance to its small island developing member countries in the Pacific, visit the governance and Pacific websites.
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