This new assessment by UNDP based on a review of 50 country studies provides an action agenda for MDG acceleration by reviewing progress thus far. It also identifies the strategies, policies and interventions for further acceleration.

In 2001, then-Surgeon General David Satcher issued a landmark statement that obesity had reached epidemic proportions in America. The country began to react, but slowly.

This report highlights a number of successes, while also assessing the human impact of lack of adequate progress on many of the millennium development goals. Shows that the goals are achievable when nationally owned development strategies and policies are supported by international development partners.

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This report provides critical insights on the existing challenges to ensure children across the developing world get timely, affordable and appropriate access to vaccines, while ensuring that the unmet needs of poor children are met by the public and private sector in the coming years.