Abstract
Many of the Millennium Development Goals are not being achieved in the world's poorest countries, yet only five years remain until the target date. The financing of these Goals is not merely insufficient; current evidence indicates that the temporary nature of the financing, as well as challenges to coordinating its delivery and directing it to the most needy recipients, hinder achievement of the Goals in countries that may benefit most. Traditional approaches to providing development assistance for health have not been able to address both prevalent and emergent public health challenges captured in the Goals; these challenges demand sustained forms of financial redistribution through a coordinated mechanism. A global social health protection fund is proposed to address recurring failures in the modern aid distribution mechanism. Such a Fund could use established and effective strategies for aid delivery to mitigate many financial problems currently undermining the Millennium Development Goals initiative.
Highlights
Many of the Millennium Development Goals are not being achieved in the world’s poorest countries, yet only five years remain until the target date
About 1 billion people are likely to remain in extreme poverty in 2015, missing the poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of halving the number of people who live on less than $1 a day by 2015
It is commonly thought that the major reason why countries cannot achieve improved health or social wellbeing is that they are too poor: poverty traps communities into a vicious cycle of inadequate capital to build schools and businesses, and such communities never have enough money to fund sustainable services needed for health, education, or other basic community infrastructure, which in turn is needed to have healthy workers and business development that would produce capital [2,6,7]
Summary
Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. 5. Stuckler D, Basu S, McKee M: Drivers of inequality in Millennium Development Goal progress. 6. Sachs J, McArthur JW, Schmidt-Traub G, et al: Ending Africa’s poverty trap. 7. Sachs J, McArthur JW: The Millennium Project: a plan for meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
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