Putting people back in the centre.

• Position: Developing countries

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

1. Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day. Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

   Achieve universal primary education

2. Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.

   Promote gender equality and empower women

3. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

   Reduce child mortality

4. Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.

   Improve maternal health

5. Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio.

   Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

6. Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.

   Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

   Ensure environmental sustainability

7. Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources.

   Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.

   Achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.

   Develop a global partnership for development

8. Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction--nationally and internationally.

   Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for...