elusive developmental goals

·        Global moniotring report  By World bank and IMF

·         MDGs wrt to education,water, poverty , hunger expected to be met by 2015

·         MDGs wrt to maternal and child mortality unlikely to be achieved

·         This is because of ill conceived policies that arent able to tackle chronic poverty

·         For example in India

o   Between 1977-87 poverty reduced by 12%

o   Between 1994-2004 poverty reduced by 8%

·         India is now home to largest number of poor(300 mn +)