Millennium development goals: whose goals and for whom?

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Udaya S Mishra, Takemi fellow (umishra@hsph.harvard.edu)

Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 665, Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02115, USA

EDITOR—Millennium development goals are the most recent statement of commitment towards narrowing gaps between the developed and developing regions of the world.1 But how realistic are these goals?

Although goals help in making assessments of progress, they should not be blind to existing potentials for progress, which …