Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 01/2011

Recurrent cost boom threathens Millenium Development Goals: What the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, keeps quiet about

Ole Therkildsen

December 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?