Evaluations of the Actions For Achieving Millennium Development Goals

Abstract

Poverty in the developing countries has been the most disturbing factor in formulating Strategies for initiating sustainable development programs. In fact most of the governments have been trying to put their maximum energies in the realization of the Agenda of poverty alleviation. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) constitute a set of time-bound, explicitly numerical development targets which are measurable using certain indicators that most nations of the world have accepted. There are eight (8) goals, eighteen (/8) targets and forty eight (48) indicators. Many of the developing countries are yet to set them on a path which is likely to help them reach the targets by 2015.Based on Secondary sources, the present paper describes the success and failure of MDGs and to examine the present Bangladesh situation. Bangladesh has achieved remarkable progress In the areas of primary schooling, girls' education, immunization, micro credit, female economic participation, birth control, physical mobility and safety nets. But Bangladesh However is not on the way to achieve the first target of MDGs. It also discusses the Evaluation reports and reviews them critically as far as possible on certain selected issues.