Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Millennium Development Goals -- Report Overview -- Millennium Development Goals-Charting Progress -- 1 Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Environmental Sustainability -- 2 The Role of Quality in MDG Progress -- 3 Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment -- 4 Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: Making Commitments Work -- 5 Monitoring the Performance of International Financial Institutions -- References -- Statistical Appendix -- Boxes -- 1 Global Monitoring Report 2007: Five key messages -- 1.1 Definition of fragile states -- 1.2 Current issues in the environment debate -- 1.3 Gender and the environment -- 1.4 Adjusting saving rates to reflect a wider range of assets -- 2.1 Early evidence that the EFA Fast Track Initiative is making a difference -- 2.2 Fast progress on child mortality in Eritrea -- 2.3 Preventing maternal mortality: Findings from three countries -- 2.4 Measuring health progress -- 2.5 Innovative new financing mechanisms for health are getting off the ground -- 2.6 Managing aid for health in Rwanda -- 2.7 Rebuilding health services after conflict: Strategies from Timor-Leste and Afghanistan -- 2.8 Contracting for health services in Cambodia -- 3.1 "Good" parity levels may hide huge enrollment challenges -- 3.2 Sex ratios at birth and removing unwanted daughters in East Asia and South Asia -- 3.3 Beyond participation: Self-employment, informality, and household work -- 3.4 How Cambodia's Ministry of Women's Affairs addresses the MDG3 challenges -- 3.5 Gender-informed public finance management -- 4.1 Accounting for debt forgiveness in ODA statistics -- 4.2 Country-based scaling up: The case of Ghana -- 4.3 Predictability of budget aid: Experience in eight African countries -- 4.4 Debt service savings and social expenditures: Is there a link?.

4.5 Developing-country clothing exports in a postquota world -- 4.6 Economic Partnership Agreements -- 5.1 The IMF's medium-term strategy -- 5.2 The World Bank's Africa Action Plan -- 5.3 The World Bank's framework on clean energy -- 5.4 How well does the World Bank contribute to development effectiveness? -- 5.5 Lending by the IMF -- 5.6 The Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics and the Accelerated Data Program -- 5.7 Are the MDBs focusing on results? -- Figures -- 1 Learning levels of primary school-aged children -- 2 Pathways from increased gender equality to poverty reduction and growth -- 3 Progress in official indicators of gender equality and women's empowerment, by region, 1990-2005 -- 1.1 Progress toward the poverty MDG target 1990-2004, and a forecast for 2015 -- 1.2 Rates of extreme poverty -- 1.3 Regulatory reforms can increase efficiency and reduce corruption -- 1.4 Trajectories of Governance Improvements -- 1.5 Adjusted net saving rates by region -- 1.6 Environment and overall CPIA score by region and income group -- 2.1 Most out-of-school girls are "doubly disadvantaged": Female and from minority groups -- 2.2 Global HIV/AIDS epidemic, 1990-2006 -- 2.3 Development assistance for education and health, 2000-05 -- 2.4 Developing countries are devoting more national resources to education and health -- 2.5 Child mortality is higher and showing less progress in fragile states -- 2.6 Primary completion rates are lower in fragile states, but improving -- 2.7 Measles immunization in fragile states remains lower -- 2.8 A growing gap in access to improved water -- 2.9 Child mortality progress -- 2.10 Measles vaccines are reaching the poor in many countries -- 2.11 Primary completion progress is benefiting the poor in many countries, but not all -- 2.12 Reading and math performance on the OECD PISA Exams, 2000 and 2003.

2.13 Many children do not attain minimum learning levels -- 2.14 The quality of health care is not just a function of doctors' training -- 3.1 Gender equality, domains of choice, and economic performance: A framework -- 3.2 Women's earnings, children's well-being, and aggregate poverty reduction and economic growth-The pathways -- 3.3 Progress in girls' enrollment rates between 1990 and 2005 -- 3.4 Trends in gender parity in enrollment and literacy rates, 1990 and 2005 -- 3.5 Average youth literacy rates in Africa conceal rural-urban disparities -- 3.6 Bolivia has a gender gap in schooling among indigenous children -- 3.7 Progress in share of women in nonagricultural wage employment and proportion of seats in parliament held by women, by region -- 3.8 Share of women in nonagricultural wage work by ethnicity -- 3.9 Female under-five mortality rate and female-to-male ratio, 2004 -- 3.10 Trend in adolescent motherhood -- 3.11 Female and male labor force participation rates by region, 1990-2005 -- 3.12 Comparison of country scores on official and expanded MDG3 indicators -- 3.13 Changes in of. cial MDG3 indicators for countries in the bottom and top quintiles, 1990-2005 -- 3.14 Changes in two proposed indicators for countries in the bottom and top quintiles, 1990-2005 -- 4.1 Evolution of aid: 1990-2006 and prospects -- 4.2 Expansion in ODA is concentrated in a few countries -- 4.3 Evolution of Net ODA to SSA, 1990-2005 -- 4.4 Gender equality focus of bilateral ODA by sector (2001-05) -- 4.5 Quality of policy matters: Distribution of 2004-05 DAC bilateral ODA -- 4.6 Sharper donor focus on policy and need -- 4.7 Fragile states receive more of their aid in the form of debt relief and humanitarian assistance -- 4.8 Aid per capita to fragile states -- 4.9 Quality of country public financial system and use of PFM system for aid to government sectors.

4.10 DAC members' and EC's ODA commitments for GPGs -- 4.11 Reduction of debt stock (NPV terms) for the 30 decision-point countries -- 4.12 Overall trade restrictiveness has declined (2000-06) -- 4.13 Aid for trade is rising -- 5.1 Net private capital flows to developing countries -- 5.2 Concessional and nonconcessional lending by MDBs, 1999-2006 -- 5.3 Nonconcessional lending by MDBs to different regions (gross disbursements), 1999-2006 -- 5.4 Gross disbursements of concessional lending by MDBs, 1999-2006 -- 5.5 Donor financing commitments to IDA under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative, as of December 31, 2006 -- 5.6 Policy and poverty selectivity of concessional assistance by MDBs -- 5.7 Grants and loans as shares of MBD concessional disbursements in 2006 -- Tables -- 1 Recommended additional indicators for MDG3 -- 2 Fragile states face the largest deficit in most MDGs -- 1.1 Impact of growth of GDP per capita on poverty -- 1.2 Per capita GDP growth for high-, middle- and low-income countries -- 1.3 Real per capita growth and investment and savings rates of fragile and nonfragile states -- 1.4 Macroeconomic indicators for low-income countries -- 1.5 Quality of macroeconomic policies in low-income countries, 2006 -- 1.6 Status of "finalized" PEFA assessments (as of February 23, 2007) -- 1.7 Key indicators of environmental sustainability -- 1A.1 Share of people living on less than 1.08 a day -- 1A.2 Share of people living on less than 2.15 a day -- 1A.3 Number of people living on less than 1.08 a day -- 1A.4 Number of people living on less than 2.15 a day -- 2.1 Several low-income countries are making strong progress on universal primary completion -- 2.2 Progress on child mortality in a few countries -- 2.3 Progress in assisted births -- 2.4 Use of insecticide-treated bednets by children under five -- 2.5 TB incidence trends by region.

2.6 Changes in TB incidence, 1990-2004 -- 2.7 Access to improved water is growing -- 2.8 Access to improved sanitation is growing -- 2.9 Fragile states lag most on MDGs -- 3.1 Official indicators for MDG3 -- 3.2 Regional performance in attaining the primary and secondary enrollment target by 2005 -- 3.3 Recommended additional indicators for MDG3 -- 3.4 Girls lag behind boys in primary school completion rates in most regions -- 3.5 Sources of death and disability with largest gender differentials in disease burden for 15- to 29-year-olds, low- and middle-income countries -- 3.6 Trends in modern contraceptive use, selected countries -- 3.7 Prospective indicators for which data are not currently available -- 3.8 Countries in the top and bottom quintiles, according to scores on official MDG3 indicators -- 3.9 Countries in the top and bottom quintiles, according to primary completion rates and under-5 mortality -- 3.10 Countries in the top and bottom quintiles, according to labor force participation rates and disability-adjusted life years -- 4.1 Indicators pertaining to bilateral donors' implementation of the Paris Declaration -- 4.2 Trade restrictiveness and its impact on welfare and trade flows, by country income group, 2004 -- 4.3 Market access (OTRI) -- 5.1 Indicators pertaining to MDB implementation of the Paris Declaration -- 5.2 IFI reforms to strengthen response in fragile states.