What are the Millennium Development Goals? Why are they significant?
A. Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger Halve by 2015 the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day. Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of starvation, usually a child under the age of 5. Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education Ensure that all boys and girls are able to complete a full course of primary school by 2015. The children of a woman with five years of primary school education have a survival rate 40 percent higher than children of women with no education. Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and at all levels by 2015. More than 40 percent of women in Africa do not have access to primary education. Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate. Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday. Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health Reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three q
