Global Monitoring Report 2005 : Millennium Development Goals : From Consensus to Momentum

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- 1 Overview: Building Momentum toward the Millennium Development Goals -- 2 Spurring and Sustaining Economic Growth -- 3 Scaling Up Service Delivery -- 4 Realizing the Development Promise of Trade -- 5 Increasing Aid and Its Effectiveness -- 6 Strengthening and Sharpening Support from International Financial Institutions -- References -- Boxes -- Millennium Development Goals -- 1.1 A five-point agenda for accelerating progress toward the MDGs -- 2.1 Growth is central to sustained poverty reduction -- 2.2 South Asia shows that stronger growth and better service delivery are key to the MDGs -- 2.3 Do poverty traps account for Africa's underdevelopment? -- 2.4 A gush of oil rents and surge in public investment do not ensure sustained growth -- 2.5 Political commitment is central to breaking the conflict cycle -- 2.6 Better macroeconomic policies and stronger institutions are associated with longer growth accelerations -- 2.7 Challenges for fiscal policy in oil-producing Sub-Saharan countries -- 2.8 Fiscal transparency has improved in Africa, but much remains to be done -- 2.9 Strengthening expenditure monitoring under the enhanced HIPC Initiative -- 2.10 Comparing business regulations in two resource-dependent economies: Angola and Botswana -- 2.11 High returns to investment climate improvements in Uganda -- 2.12 How does governance affect per capita incomes in Africa, and vice versa? -- 2.13 The Economic Commission for Africa's governance indicators and agenda -- 3.1 Sub-Saharan Africa shows that fast progress is possible in closing the gender gap -- 3.2 Reducing child mortality in Mozambique -- 3.3 Improving sanitation in India's slums -- 3.4 Attracting doctors to rural areas in Thailand.