The Big Divide: A Ten Year Report on Small Island Developing States and the Millennium Development Goals

Table of Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgements List of figures List of tables Abbreviations and acronyms About the authors PART I OVERVIEW 1. Introduction and Key Findings 1.1 Progress and population size 1.2 MDG 1: Poverty relief 1.3 MDG 2: Universal education 1.4 MDG 3: Gender equality 1.5 MDG 4: Child health 1.6 MDG 5: Maternal health 1.7 MDG 6: Disease control 1.8 MDG 7: Sustainable environment 1.9 MDG 8: Partnerships 1.10 Assessing the real numbers 1.11 Lagging behind 1.12 Off-track status 1.13 Missing data 1.14 Use of percentages 1.15 Investment for progress 1.16 New measurements 1.17 Microstates and progress 1.18 Recommendations 2. Assessing Progress 2.1 Global financial crisis 2.2 Goals, targets and indicators 2.3 Data and sources 2.4 Defining performance status 2.5 Proximity to target 2.6 Comparisons, league tables and benchmarks 2.7 Country coverage 3. Findings 3.1 Targets achieved 3.2 Progress including missing data 3.3 Progress and population size 3.4 Missing data 3.5 Missing data and population size 3.6 Progress excluding missing data 3.7 Including or excluding missing data 3.8 Variation in missing data by MDG 3.9 Performance off-track 3.10 Comparative analysis 3.11 Progress by MDG PART II REVIEW OF PERFORMANCE 4. MDG 1: Poverty Relief 4.1 Overall performance 4.2 Missing data 4.3 Undernourishment 4.4 The BRIC states and the relief of poverty 4.5 Action on MDG 1: Poverty relief 5. MDG 2: Universal Education 5.1 Overall performance 5.2 Target 2A: Ensure boys and girls complete primary schooling 5.3 Action on MDG 2: Education 6. MDG 3: Gender Equality 6.1 Overall performance 6.2 Target 3A: Gender equality in education 6.3 Action on MDG 3: Gender equality 7. MDG 4: Child Health 7.1 Overall performance 7.2 Target 4A: Reducing child mortality by 2015 7.3 IMR and GDP 7.4 Some of the poorest countries achieving the greatest reduction in infant deaths 7.5 Changing the global strategy on saving infant lives 7.6 Action on Goal 4: Child health 8. MDG 5: Maternal Health 8.1 Overall performance 8.2 Target 5A: Reduce the maternal mortality ratio 8.3 Action on MDG 5: Maternal health 9. MDG 6: Disease Control 9.1 Overall performance 9.2 Targets 6A and 6B: Indicators 6.1-6.5: HIV/AIDS 9.3 Target 6C: Indicators 6.6-6.8: Malaria 9.4 Target 6C: Indicator 6.8: Children under 5-years-old treated with anti-malaria drugs 9.5 Target 6C: Indicators 6.9-6.10: Tuberculosis 9.6 Action on MDG 6: Disease control 54 10. MDG 7: Sustainable Environment 10.1 Overall performance 10.2 Target 7A: Sustainable development and environmental loss 10.3 Target 7B: Reduction in loss of biodiversity 10.4 Target 7C: People without access to safe water and sanitation 10.5 Target 7D: Improve lives of slum dwellers 10.6 Action on MDG 7: Environmental sustainability 11. MDG 8: Partnerships 11.1 Overall performance 11.2 Target 8D 11.3 Target 8F: Information and communications technologies 11.4 Action on MDG 8: Partnerships 12. Challenges of the MDG system 12.1 MDGs back on the menu? 12.2 Missing data 12.3 Waiting for data 12.4 National commitment to the MDGs 12.5 Adapting the MDG system to the needs of small states 12.6 A new technical and planning framework 12.7 Inter-state inequality 12.8 Intra-state inequality 12.9 Differing pressures of population growth 12.10 Appropriate technology for intervention 12.11 Predicting the impact of economic change 12.12 Models for development 12.13 Tools for planning 12.14 Policy implications 12.15 Next steps in policy development 12.16 Adapting the MDGs to local priorities 13. Conclusions and Recommendations 13.1 Greening the development process 13.2 The MDG system and adaption 13.3 Technical development and support 13.4 Recommendations Annex 1. League and Performance Tables Annex 2. Millennium Development Goals, Targets and Indicators Annex 3. New Development of Indicators Relevant to SIDS Bibliography

About the Author :
Dr John L Roberts is a British international consultant on macroeconomics and sustainable development, living in Mauritius, who has worked there mainly with the Indian Ocean Commission and the Commonwealth Secretariat. In 2007, he was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Mauritius teaching on a Master's programme on natural resources management. Ibukunoluwa Ibitoye is currently working as a UK government economist. She previously worked as Economic Officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat across a range of international development issues relating to small states and international trade, as well as to human settlements and urban development.