The millennium development goals and the challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean in making progress towards higher levels of well-being, better human capital and more equal opportunities

1 July 2007 | Publication

Work area(s)

Economic development Social development Statistics Population and development

Topic(s)

Fiscal affairs Productivity Social policies and programmes Employment Income distribution Inequality Education Youth Mortality and health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Poverty Childhood and adolescence Families Food and nutrition security

The millennium development goals and the challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean in making progress towards higher levels of well-being, better human capital and more equal opportunities

- Publication corporate author (Institutional author): NU. CEPAL
- Physical description: 91 páginas.
- Publisher: ECLAC
- UN symbol (Signature): LC/W.145
- Date: 1 July 2007

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Abstract

This document takes up a number of the points raised in the 2005 report by ECLAC and other UN agencies on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. It provides further discussion on the type of problems and challenges facing the region in five areas that are either included in the MDGs or closely related to them (poverty, hunger and child malnutrition, education, health and children). The document makes recommendations for the region's governments and countries in these five areas.