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UN Millennium Development Library: Innovation - Applying Knowledge in Development (Hardcover)
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UN Millennium Development Library: Innovation - Applying Knowledge in Development (Hardcover)
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"The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium
Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing
extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty,
hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter
while promoting gender equality, education, health and
environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all
parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments
to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development
Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous
world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United
Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of
action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent
advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN
Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN
Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium
Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces
comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including
scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians,
policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies,
the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector. This report argues
that meeting the Millennium Development Goals will require a
substantial reorientation of development policies to focus on key
sources of economic growth, particularly the use of scientific and
technological knowledge and related institutional adjustments. It
outlines key areas for policy action, including focusing on
platform or generic technologies; defining infrastructure services
as a foundation for technology; improving higher education in
science and placing universities at the centre of local
development; spurring entrepreneurial activities; improving the
policy environment; and focusing on areas of under-funded research
for development."
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