Africa: Comprehensive New Reports Show Progress on Millennium Development Goals

Africa: Comprehensive New Reports Show Progress on Millennium Development GoalsAs world leaders prepare for next week’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit at the United Nations in New York, a new body of research examining development progress is published by Britain’s leading think-tank on international development, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

The first new ODI study, the MDG Report Card, provides a country-by-country analysis of progress toward meeting the MDGs.

A second new study, Development Progress Stories, showcases outstanding examples of national progress in eight major areas of development: economic conditions, health, water and sanitation, education, governance, environmental conditions, agriculture and rural development, and social protection. The first stories appear today on a new website.