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Millennium Development Goals

Sri Lanka's Progress and Key Achievements

Publisher: United Nations and Government of Sri Lanka

Place of Publish: Sri Lanka, Colombo

Page Numbers: 108

Acc. No: 4648

Class No: 338.9 MILL-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Development

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English’ Sinhala’ and Tamil

This trilingual publication (English Sinhala and Tamil) highlights some of the key achievements and progress that Sri Lanka has made in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Sri Lanka signed the Millennium Declaration, along with 188 countries in 2000, which committed nations to a global partnership that would work towards reducing extreme poverty. It also set out a series of targets that with a deadline for 2015. Those targets are knows as the MDGs.