Global Monitoring Report 2004 : Policies and Actions for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Related Outcomes

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- Overview: From Vision to Action -- PART I Framework -- 1 Monitoring Framework -- 2 MDG Prospects: Reasons for Optimism, Grave Concerns -- PART II Developing-Country Policies -- 3 Overall Picture -- 4 Improving Enabling Climate for Growth: Economic and Financial Policies -- 5 Upgrading Public Sector Governance -- 6 Strengthening Infrastructure -- 7 Accelerating Human Development -- 8 Promoting Environmental Sustainability -- PART III Developed-Country Policies -- 9 Fostering Growth and Stability: Macro-financial Policies -- 10 Dismantling Barriers to Trade -- 11 Providing More and Better Aid -- 12 Fulfilling Responsibilities for Global Public Goods -- PART IV Role of International Financial Institutions -- 13 Monitoring the IFIs' Contribution -- References -- Boxes -- Millennium Development Goals -- 1.1 An action plan for improving development statistics -- 1.2 Strengthening the links between PRSPs and the MDGs -- 2.1 East Asia and Pacific: Despite solid performance on MDGs, challenges remain -- 5.1 Improving fiscal transparency through ROSCs -- 5.2 The African Peer Review Mechanism: self-assessing governance -- 5.3 Governance in Africa-progress on a difficult agenda -- 6.1 Water supply and sanitation in the MDGs -- 7.1 Rwanda: HIV/AIDS and health expenditures -- 7.2 The case of the missing money: monitoring public expenditure -- 7.3 The Bangladesh Female Secondary School Assistance Program -- 8.1 Multisectoral interventions to achieve the MDGs: lessons from child mortality in rural India -- 8.2 The United Nations Task Force on Environmental Sustainability -- 9.1 Differences between remittances and capital flows -- 10.1 The EU's Common Agricultural Policy reform.