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The International Development Targets (IDTs)

A reduction by half in the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015

Universal primary education in all countries by 2015.

Gender disparities in primary and secondary education removed by 2005.

A reduction by two-thirds in the mortality rates for infants and children under 5 and a reduction by three-quarters in maternal mortality by 2015.

Access through the primary health care system to reproductive health services for all individuals of appropriate ages as soon as possible and no later than 2015.

To implement national strategies for sustainable development in all countries by 2005, so as to ensure that current trends in the loss of environmental resources are effectively reversed at both global and national levels by 2015.

Other targets have been or are being developed after the OECD Development Assistance Committee's  1996 publication 'Shaping the 21st Century: The contribution of development co-operation', in such areas as HIV/AIDS and shelter.

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