Directions: The United Nations has set out to target eight areas in their millennium development goals: poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, diseases, environment and global partnership. Each of these goal has a number of indicators as too the areas that the UN feels need to be address in order to remedy the larger issue. You are going to look at Goal 1: Eliminate Poverty and Goal 3: Gender Equality. After doing that you will gather the latest data (this could be up to a couple years old) for all of its indicators for your selected country. To do this you go to the Millennium Development Goal Website and click on the data link in the left side panel. On the data page select country tables and find your country and goals. It will be easiest for you to download the data in excel for by clicking the excel button at the top of the screen. Once you have the data for your country you will need to find the data for two countries that border it, its local region the region and the Sub-Saharan Africa Region and the South Asia Region (unless your country is in one of those regions than choose another). After you have downloaded all of this data you will then need to go to the UN Human Development Website and find the data for all the indicators you are researching and pull those numbers for the United States. You will compile all that data into a similar format to the example and answer the questions on the handout.
Helpful Links: (These links can be helpful in better understanding the MDG and finding possible solutions to them)
World Bank - Millennium Development Goals
UN Population Fund - Millennium Development Goals
UN Social and Economic Assessment
