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A Better World for All: Progress Towards the International Development Goals addresses that most compelling of human desires - a world free of poverty and free of the misery that poverty breeds. In words and pictures, with numbers and charts, it describes progress towards the goals, what have been achieved and the effort required to reach them. The seven goals discussed all address aspects of poverty - reduce the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by half between 1990 and 2015; enroll all children in primary school by 2015; make progress towards gender equality and empowering women by eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005; reduce infant and child mortality rates by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015; reduce maternal mortality ratios by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015; provide access for all who need reproductive health services by 2015; and implement national strategies for sustainable development by 2005 so as to reverse the loss of environmental resources by 2015.
