Shiladitya Chatterjee

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The Millennium Development Goals Progress in
Asia and the Pacific

• Shiladitya Chatterjee
• Head, Poverty Unit
• Asian Development Bank
• 1 October 2007, Manila, Philippines

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Challenges Facing the Asia-Pacific Region
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Extreme Poverty

• Although dramatic improvements have occurred, 600
  million poor still live in Asia-Pacific region

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2006
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Extreme Poverty

• East Asia Pacific will significantly surpass
  target
• South Asia expected to marginally meet target

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2007
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Child Mortality

• Problem affects entire developing Asia-Pacific
  region with the region accounting for 4 million
  deaths (over 40 of the world total).

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2006
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Child Mortality

• South Asia may not meet target East Asia and
  Pacific is currently on track

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2007
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Maternal Mortality
Maternal Mortality

• Widespread problem in region. Over 200,000 deaths
  constituting over 45 of world total

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2006
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Maternal Mortality

• Considerable regional variation East Asia
  better than Latin America South
  Asia near Sub-Saharan Africa
• Major data problems no progress can be assessed

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2007
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HIV

• About 6 million are affected (more than a 20 of
  world total)

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2006
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HIV

• Asia has become a major region of concern.
  Several sub-regions are off-track (Central Asia,
  Pacific).

Source UNAIDS2006 Report on the Global AIDS
Epidemic
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Primary Education

• Progress good but more needs to be done in South
  Asia and the Pacific which are off-track

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2006
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Primary Education
Source Global Monitoring Report, 2007
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Gender Parity in Education

• Progress good in eliminating gender disparity in
  education
• Insufficient progress in participation and
  empowerment

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2006
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Gender Parity in Education

• Parity reached in East Asia and Pacific not yet
  in South Asia

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2007
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Access to Water

• Over 650 million people do not have access to an
  improved water source accounting for about 60 of
  worlds population without access

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2006
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Access to Water Sanitation

• East Asia is off track on both water and
  sanitation targets
• South Asia off track on sanitation but will meet
  water target

Source Global Monitoring Report, 2007
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By absolute numbers of the deprived,
Asia- Pacific clearly faces the
biggest challenge amongst developing
regions of the world
Deprivations Absolute Numbers
People living in social and economic poverty in
Asia and the Pacific
Millions 1549 9 97 399 566 641 93 0.3 4
28 6
Source ADB-UNDP-UNESCAP MDG Progress Report
2007 for Asia-Pacific
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ADB Countries at Risk

• Progress on non-income poverty is unsatisfactory
• 29 of ADBs 43 developing member countries are
  off track in more than a quarter of the
  non-income MDG indicators

Source ADB-UNESCAP-UNDP. 2007. The Millennium
Development Goals Progress in Asia and the
Pacific 2007 (forthcoming).
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MDG Sectors at Risk in ADB Countries

• Most significant concerns in ADBs DMCs are
• CO2 emissions
• Sanitation
• Access to water
• Underweight children
• Infant mortality
• Forest cover
• Data not available to track progress on maternal
  mortality

ADB Asian Development Bank, CFC chloroflouro
carbon, CO2 carbon dioxide, DMC developing
member country, HIV human immunodeficiency
virus, MDG Millennium Development Goal, TB
tuberculosis.
Source ADB-UNESCAP-UNDP. 2007. The Millennium
Development Goals Progress in Asia and the
Pacific 2007 (forthcoming).
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Data Issues Data Gaps

• Update uses 21 indicators out of 32 indicators
  relating to goals 1-7.
• Within these, data on some countries are not
  available to derive progress indicators.
• Much more effort and capacity to compile MDG
  related data is necessary.

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Data Issues Data Gaps
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Data IssuesDisaggregating MDG Data

• Rural Urban
• Income classes
• Sub-national administrative regions
• Gender

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• Thank You
• schatterjee_at_adb.org