AN ASSESSMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs)
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This paper highlighted the importance of the family in the society as well as the negative
impact poverty, war and diseases can have on the development of the family. It went on to
review the eight MDGs set in 2000 for attainment on or before 2015 which also targeted the
most vulnerable groups in the family (the women and children). Available data from the
World Bank and the National Bureau of Statistics revealed that though substantial progress
has been made towards attaining the various targets set for the MDGs but, only MDG Goal
3/Target 3A, aimed at gender parity in primary and secondary school was fully met in
Nigeria in 2012 as indicated by NBS 2014 national survey results of 1.0 and 1.02 ratio of
girls to boys in primary and secondary school at the national level. Nigeria did not meet fully
all of the other MDG goals and targets and actually retarded rather than progress with
respect to MDG Goal 1/Target 1A, Goal 6/Target 6A and Goal 7/Target 7C. Proportion of
the population that had access to improved sanitation facilities for instance, actually declined
from 37 per cent in 1990 to 28 per cent in 2012 in Nigeria rather than increase by 50 per
cent from the 1990 level. Therefore, a lot still needs to be done in Nigeria and most other
developing countries, particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa, in order to assist families in
this part of the world to be able to contribute their quota to economic development in their
environment and the world at large. More investments are needed in the education and
health sectors and priorities must be given to the vulnerable groups (women and children) as
well as very poor families who performed worse.
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H Social Sciences (General), HG Finance