Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals

We have the opportunity in the coming decade to cut world poverty by half. Billions more people could enjoy the fruits of the global economy. Tens of millions of lives can be saved. The practical solutions exist. The political framework is established. And for the first time, the cost is utterly affordable. All that is needed is action. This report brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project.By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, it presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.