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The international community has over the years embraced various campaigns that have aimed to achieve certain development goals, variously defined. These include the United Nations ‘Education for All’ and‘Health for All’ campaigns adopted in 1978 and 1990 respectively. Education for All aimed to achieve universal worldwide access to primary education by the year 2000. Health for All aimed to provide universal primary education and universal access to healthcare by the same year. Unanimously adopted by all member states at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to date the most ambitious and comprehensive developmental undertaking ever embraced by the international community.
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McGillivray, M. (2008). The Millennium Development Goals: Overview, Progress and Prospects. In: McGillivray, M. (eds) Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594937_1
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