Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 01/2011

Recurrent cost boom threathens Millennium Development Goals

Ole Therkildsen

November 2010

Danish Institute for International Studies

Abstract

At the September 2010 UN summit on the Millennium Development Goals the Secretary-General stressed that tremendous progress in school enrolment, disease control and access to clean water had been achieved. This policy brief addresses a question that he did not talk about. How shall the achievements in relation to the goals be sustained beyond January 1, 2016?