The U.N. Millennium Project: Practical Action Plan to Combat Poverty

The Earth Institute at Columbia University: "On Monday, January 17, in the most comprehensive strategy ever put forward for combating global poverty, hunger and disease, the U.N. Millennium Project released a blueprint for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The report “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals” was prepared by a team of 265 of the world’s leading development experts, including many scientists from The Earth Institute at Columbia University. It includes specific cost-effective measures that together could cut extreme poverty in half and radically improve the lives of at least one billion people in poor developing countries by 2015.

“Until now, we did not have a concrete plan for achieving the Millennium Development Goals,” said Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and director of the three-year U.N. Millennium Project. “The experts who contributed to this huge undertaking have shown without a doubt that we can still meet the Goals — if we start putting this plan into action right now.”"