"Adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions."
United Nations
Students searching for information on the MDGs will be pleased to find there is no shortage of resources on this subject. Reports on progress of the MDGs can be found at the UNDP website as well as news, statistics and a calendar of events. MDGs can be tracked by country or goal, here; progress can also be tracked in the national MDG reports published by UNDP. The End Poverty 2015 campaign website has a page dedicated to a variety of resources such as press releases, interactive media and documents. The recently published report 'The Millenium Development Goals Report 2011' can be found here.
The World Bank has its own webpage which includes the reports 'The MDGs & the Road to 2015' and 'Unfinished Business: mobilizing efforts to achieve the 2015 MDGs'.
Finally, the Economist asks the question of whether the MDGs have been effective or not.
