Target 13: Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
Target 14: Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
Target 15: Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
Target 16: In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies-especially information and communications technologies
Goal 8 can only be realised if all the other goals are achieved. It requires cooperation within each country and between developing and rich countries. For Goal 8 to be achieved more focus must be given to small and land-locked countries and debt relief for all developing countries as well as solutions to problems such as youth unemployment, unavailable medicine and technology.
About Target 12:
Creating good governance in developing countries is essential to this goal and all goals. The best and easiest way for rich countries to help developing countries is through monetary aid but this aid cannot get to areas where it is need the most without good governance. An even better way for rich countries to help developing ones is through trade. But trading only helps when it is fair and rule based and involves a broad variety of people in the country instead of a select group
About Target 13:
The aid received by developing countries is essential to their growth. There had been extra money pledged for debt relief but it is estimated that these funds will not cover the extra $30-$50 billion needed to allow some of the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Growth in the agricultural sector is hurt by the taxes applied to poor countries who export to richer ones. These taxes are not attached to goods the rich countries export to poorer ones. If trade could be equalised, then 300 million people would be free from poverty by 2015.
About Target 14:
Land locked countries are severely disadvantaged as they do not have access to the main trade route, the ocean. This also affects small island countries as they do not have the resources to create ships to transport goods effectively. These nations will receive $50 per capita from the $58.3 billion pledged to help developing countries.
About Target 15:
Many developing nations have huge debt to other richer countries. This debt takes away from their GNP and makes progress difficult. In 2004 27 countries pledged debt relief totalling $52 billion a significant increase from 2000 when 22 countries pledged $34.5 billion to help developing countries. This aid can come in form of money, but most goes toward wiping away debts developing countries may have to a particular rich country.
About Target 16:
Youth unemployment is one of the biggest issues for developing countries as it was estimated 74 million young men and women were without work in 2002, which is 41% of the total unemployment. In most regions, youth unemployment has increased since 1995. In both Asia and South America the youth unemployment rate has only increased since 1997 and in 1999 26% of the youth population has was estimated to be unemployed in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Progress has been made in Southern Africa where 18% of the youth population was estimated to be unemployed in 1999, a significant drop since 1998.
About Target 17:
More and more essential drugs are becoming available in developing countries allowing them to create a healthier population. The UN is funding development initiativesin 140 countries, most focusing on healthcare.
About Target 18:
Access to communications services is especially important for developing countries to allow them the ability to communicate with other nations, which paves the way for trade and better education. This increased information and education leads to other things such as the reduction of corruption in governments and allowing farmers in rural areas to find out fair market prices for their goods. South America and the Caribbean are leading the developing regions with 67 in every 1000 people having access to computers. Central Asia as well as the Middle East and Northern Africa have also mad significant progress in the area of computer communication.
