Goals to reduce poverty and infant mortality will be missed -- Dyer 331 (7517): 593 -- BMJ

Goals to reduce poverty and infant mortality will be missed -- Dyer 331 (7517): 593 -- BMJ: "Goals to reduce poverty and infant mortality will be missed
Owen Dyer
London
Published on the eve of the United Nations summit in New York this week, the UN's 2005 Human Development Report finds that progress on human development, public health, and education is slowing or stagnating in many parts of the world.
The report predicts that the UN's millennium development goals "a commitment made by 189 nations to reduce infant mortality and extreme poverty and to improve maternal health, primary education, and sex equality" are in many cases further from realisation today than they were in 1990. "/.../