GMR 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs

This report delves into country performance and reveals a diverse, and often hopeful, picture. With improved policies and faster growth, developing countries can still achieve the targets in 2015 or soon after.

GMR 2010: The MDGs after the Crisis

The global financial crisis has slowed the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries and is hampering progress toward the other MDGs. Global Monitoring Report 2010 cautions that the crisis will affect long-term development prospects in developing countries well beyond 2015.

GMR 2009: A Development Emergency

This report warns that, although the first goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015 from its 1990 level is still reachable based on current projections, risks abound.

GMR 2008: MDGs and the Environment - Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

This report stresses the link between environment and development and calls for urgent action on climate change. To build on hard-won gains, developing countries need support to address the links between growth, development and environmental sustainability.

GMR 2007: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States

This report emphasized that women's equality and fragile states need to receive concerted attention and the international community must scale up strategies for reaching the eight Millennium Development Goals.

GMR 2006: Strengthening Mutual Accountability - Aid, Trade & Governance

This report highlighted economic growth, better quality aid, and trade reforms, as well as governance as essential elements to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

GMR 2005: Millennium Development Goals: From Consensus to Momentum

The 2005 report noted that progress toward the MDGs has been slower and more uneven across regions than originally envisaged, with Sub-Saharan Africa falling far short..

GMR 2004: Policies and Actions for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Related Outcomes

The findings of the first Global Monitoring Report provided a sobering assessment of progress toward the MDGs, and of progress in meeting the commitments made at Monterrey. Most MDGs would not be met by most countries, it noted.