Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development

Goal 8

Develop a global partnership for development

Development aid falls for the second year, jeopardising

commitments for 2010

Official development assistance from OECD-DAC countries 1990 - 2007

Development assistance will have to increase substantially to double aid to

Africa by 2010Net official development assistance from OECD-DAC countries as a proportion of donors’ gross national income 1990-2007

Market access for most developing countries has little

improved Proportion of development country imports from developing countries ,excluding arms and oil,admitted free of duty and developed countries average tariffs on imports of key products of from developing countries, 2000-2006

Domestic agricultural subsides by rich countries overshadow money spent on development

aidOfficial development assistance from OECD-DAC

countries and agricultural support in OECD countries, 2000,2004 and 2006

Trade-related assistance needs to be icreased

Proportion of total bilateral, sector-allocable ODA of ODEC-DAC donors to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation) and trade-related technical assistance and capacity-building 2001-2006

Domestic agricultural subsides by rich countries overshadowmoney spent on development

aidExternal debt service payment as proportion of export revenues, 1990-2006

Poor availability and high prices are barriers to

access to essential drugs in developing countries

• Governments need to define goods and objectives for the pharmaceutical aid and to identify strategies to meet them

• Where medicines are usually provided at a low cost or free-of –charge, people are often very poor

• In all regions availability is better in the private sector, but it can still be poor

• Some pharmaceutical manufacturers have lowered their prices to public health systems in developing countries to accord with the purchasing power of governments and households

• Generic drugs offer an alternative to higher priced original and brand-named medicines

Mobile phones are expanding communications in

developing countriesNumber of telephone subscriptions and internet connections per 100 world population, 1990-2006

Internet use is increasing rapidly, but the poorest regions lag behind