As the world approaches the target year of the Millennium Development Goals and passes into the new, post-2015 era, the … feasible is that? For most of the developing world, the goal seems ambitious, yet achievable -- but what about the prospects … scenario produces a forecast of a 20 percent extreme poverty rate for this group of countries. The paper then explores the …

, and using health workforce data (1990-2013) for 165 countries from the World Health Organization's Global Health … estimated by the World Health Organization to achieve essential health coverage. The model predicts that by 2030 global demand …

controls in the migrant-destination countries pose risks to the forecasts. Much remains to be done to improve the forecast …

for policy-making purposes. The paper explores the implications of these findings for the World Bank's classification of …