They are being calculated using the so called consumer apos s basket, which includes 497 items for the social minimum and 746 items for the living standards minimum.

Goal 4 Reduce child mortality

Of the nominated candidates, 14 per cent were women, falling short of the goal of 30 per cent of the candidates contesting the polls being women.

It was below the minimum wage, OK? And this is well documented.

The cost of achieving the Millennium Development Goals include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger (Goal 1) achieving universal primary education (Goal 2) eliminating gender disparity at all levels of education (Goal 3) reducing child mortality (Goal 4) and reducing maternal mortality (Goal 5).

Other programmes, such as promotion of breastfeeding, help to promote critical Millennial Goals such as reducing child mortality, along with improved nutrition and reducing hunger.

The Programme of Action contains specific recommendations and goals to make these rights a reality, goals that are consistent with those included in the Millennium Development Goals with regard to the reduction of mortality in childhood and the improvement of maternal health.

Nevertheless, progress towards their achievements, in particular of goal 1 on reducing by half the number of people living on less than a dollar a day by 2015, is behind schedule in most countries concerned.

Although Africa has recorded a marked improvement in its recent economic performance, its growth rate still falls short of the target growth rate of 7 per cent per annum necessary to attain the MDGs.

So it's a whole discipline in plant protection that's aiming at the reduction of chemicals.

So the goal here is to minimize fatalities.

In other words, approximately US  495 million annually in 2004 dollars during the period 2005 2015.7

Improve maternal health (MDG 5)

A concern regarding the capacity of low and middle income countries to reach the Millennium Development Goals was also expressed.

ODA has remained far below the 0.7 per cent target, agreed 35 years ago, and ODA quality is also a matter of concern.

The first Millennium Development Goal is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. The target is halving the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger.

(f) Although considerable effort went into providing metadata to support the MDG database, it fell well short of what is desirable. There are two main problems

Current levels must be reduced by 64 per cent in order to achieve this.

26. The simplification of questionnaires, which was recommended by the auditors, was considered as a desirable goal that the Commission had requested its secretariat to pursue without compromising any requirements for a minimum amount of data necessary for making valid and reliable statistical analysis.

These totalled 17.6 million, down from 26.9 million in 2003 and far below the target core contribution of 30 million called for by the Executive Board in its decision 2002 26.

81. The general objective of the health programme was to reduce infantile mortality and maternal mortality rates.

As a result the original lowest bidders were requested to revise their proposals to reflect the manpower levels reflected by the second lowest bidder.

As policymakers plan for the next five years, they should set China s growth targets at 7 7.5 , adjusting them within that range as changes in the international climate dictate. Such a growth target can help to stabilize employment, lower financial risk, and achieve the country s goal of doubling income by 2020.

Conditions of detention fall below international minimum standards in the majority of the juvenile centres in Afghanistan.

In mid 2004, we were far below those standards.

Official development assistance, debt relief and trade related issues need to be aligned with the MDGs so that low income countries can achieve the MDG based targets.

14.8 While overall objectives for technical cooperation were achieved, UNDCP suffered from lower expenditure for operational projects, mainly attributable to low delivery of agency and government executed projects.

They have an objective to lowering the cost of connectivity.

The overall objective is to reduce the general mortality rate by 40 per cent by 2010, to 21 per thousand.

Our target of poverty eradication is not 28 per cent by 2015, but 10 per cent by 2017.

In case of temperature between 35 and 37 , people can receive allowance of no less than 10 yuan per day. In case of temperature above 37 , people are released with the allowance of not less than 15 yuan.

At the current pace, the goal of reducing the child mortality rate will be met 30 years late.

(b) If created by means of negotiation, the standards set will be below existing minimum obligations

Hence, the health situation remains below the requisite standard.

Slovakia has a national target of reducing by 20 per cent its carbon dioxide emissions in 2005 compared to 1988 levels it expects its emissions in 2000 to be 16 per cent lower than in 1990.

The object of the reforms being implemented should not diminish the transparency of discussions.

Goals 1 and 2 To halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.

DPKO has informed OIOS that the statement that goods and services were not procured from the lowest bidder related to 14 cases, and that its review showed that these contracts were in fact awarded to the lowest bidder or to the lowest acceptable bidder on a proprietary basis, taking into account such factors as delivery time and transportation costs.

As a whole, Asia and the Pacific region is expected to meet the income poverty target of 1 a day by 2015, and may even surpass it by a significant margin.

It was noted that article 13 provided minimum essential requirements for the recognition of a foreign representative and that it would not be appropriate to lower those standards for the purposes of article 9.

In line with Millennium Development Goal 4 and the goals of the twenty seventh special session, Viet Nam's child mortality rate has been considerably reduced.

With regard to article 42, the term minimum standards should be replaced with the term indicative standards .

The headline consumer price index (CPI) is near zero, and core or underlying inflation the Fed s favorite indicator remains significantly below the seemingly sacrosanct 2 target. With a long anemic recovery looking shaky again, the doves contend that there is no reason to rush ahead with interest rate hikes.

78. As regards Issue 6 (Risk of lowering standards), Prof. Melander referred to the existence of minimum rules in other areas as, for instance, the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.

B. Pertinent to objective I.A.