Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: relevance for low- income countries in Asia

Years of debate, effort and struggle went into setting specifi c goals to promote the economic and social development of the world’s poorest countries. Antecedents of the development framework that ultimately emerged between 2000 and 2001 can be traced back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the Development Decade of the 1960s and several United Nations (UN) summits held in the second half of the twentieth century [1].