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MDGs Made Easy

MDGs Made Easy. Solita Collas-Monsod Professor Emerita School of Economics University of the Philippines. Millennium Development Goals. UN Millennium Declaration Millennium Summit, September 2000 (189 countries committed). Introduction. Millennium Development Goals: 8 major goals

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MDGs Made Easy

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  1. MDGs Made Easy • Solita Collas-Monsod • Professor Emerita • School of Economics • University of the Philippines

  2. Millennium Development Goals UN Millennium Declaration Millennium Summit, September 2000 (189 countries committed)

  3. Introduction • Millennium Development Goals: • 8 major goals • 21 targets • 60 indicators • 25-year timeline • Base year: 1990 • End year: 2015

  4. The Millennium Development Goals • 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

  5. Understanding the MDGs • Goal I: deals with income poverty • Goals II-VII: deal with outcome poverty • Goal VIII: deals with financing the achievement of the goals

  6. Understanding the MDGs The Goals are not “stand-alone”. The achievement of one generally helps in the achievement of others

  7. The links between Education and Poverty • More than 2/3 of the poor families in the Philippines have household heads who have completed, at most, an elementary education. • 42% of poor households were those whose heads were elementary undergraduates • 26% of poor households were those whose heads were elementary graduates. • Thus, 68% of poor households have heads with at best an elementary school degree.

  8. Links between education and poverty

  9. Links between education and poverty

  10. Links between family size and poverty

  11. Links between family size and poverty

  12. MDG Progress at the National Level

  13. MDG Progress at the National Level

  14. MDG Progress at the National Level

  15. MDG Progress at the National Level

  16. MDG Progress at the National Level

  17. MDG Progress at the National Level

  18. MDG Progress at the National Level

  19. Progress of Regions: MDG1, Target 1Official Estimates vs CBN/FLOL approach

  20. Progress of Regions: MDG1, Target 1Official Estimates vs CBN/FLOL approach

  21. Progress of Regions: MDG1, Target 1Official Estimates vs CBN/FLOL approach

  22. Measuring Progress in Achieving the MDGs 2. Time Distance Measure

  23. Measuring Progress in Achieving the MDGs 2. Time Distance Measure

  24. Thank you

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