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Links between Childhood Mortality and Economic Growth and Their Implications for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in India

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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

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A set of time-bound targets for human development were agreed by 189 countries at the Millennium Summit held in New York in September 2000, and these are referred to as the Millennium Development Goals (henceforth MDGs). They represent an unprecedented commitment on the part of both rich and poor countries. One of the eight targets is to reduce under-5 mortality by two-thirds by the year 2015, relative to its level in 1990. This requires an annual rate of decline of about 4.3 per cent per annum.1

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Bhalotra, S. (2008). Links between Childhood Mortality and Economic Growth and Their Implications for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in India. In: McGillivray, M. (eds) Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594937_6

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