Global Goals - Achievements MDG8
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Global Director Patient Engagement | Enthusiastic of Patient-Centered Research to elevate the patient communities' voice
GOAL8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
Target Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
- Official development assistance hit a record high of $134.8 billion in 2013.
- Aid shifted away from the poorest countries where attainment of the MDGs often lags the most.
Target Address the special needs of least developed countries
- Net bilateral aid to Africa (where 34 of the 48 least developed countries are located) fell by 5.6 per cent in 2013, to $28.9 billion in real terms.
- Eighty per cent of imports from developing countries enter developed countries duty-free.
Target Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States
- Aid to landlocked developing countries fell in 2010 for the first time in a decade, while aid to small island developing States increased substantially.
Target Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries
- The debt burden on developing countries remains stable at about 3 per cent of export revenue, which was a near 75 per cent drop since 2000.
Target In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
- Resources available for providing essential medicines through some disease-specific global health funds increased in 2011, despite the global economic downturn.
- There has been little improvement in recent years in improving availability and affordability of essential medicines in developing countries.
Target In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
- Two-thirds of the world’s Internet users are in developing regions, where the number of Internet users doubled between 2009 and 2014.
- In 2014, Internet use penetration in developing countries grew by 8.7 per cent, twice as fast as in the developed world where its usage rose by 3.3 per cent.
- In Africa, almost 20 per cent of the population are online, up from 10 per cent in 2010.
- Thirty per cent of the world’s youth are digital natives, active online for at least five years.
- More than four billion people do not use the Internet, and 90 per cent of them are from the developing world.
The only mention in the report is that Brazil participates and contributes to the WTO, especially Doha round. (isn’t it already dead?)