Preface -- Contributors -- Task force reports -- Abbreviations -- Millennium Development Goals -- Ten key recommendations -- Part 1 Why the MDGs are important, where we stand, and why we're falling short -- 1 The Millennium Development Goals and why they matter -- 2 Where we stand with only a decade to go -- 3 Why the world is falling short of the Goals -- Part 2 Country-level processes to achieve the Millennium Development Goals -- 4 MDG-basedpoverty reduction strategies -- 5 Public investments to empower poor people -- 6 Key elements for rapid scale-up -- 7 Governance to achieve the Millennium Development Goals -- 8 Civil society's contribution to the Millennium Development Goals -- 9 Contributions of the private sector -- 10 Africans special needs -- 11 Investment priorities for reaching the Millennium Development Goals in other regions -- 12 Strategies for countries affected by conflict -- Part 3 Recommendations for the international system to support country-level processes -- 13 Fixing the aid system -- 14 A global breakthrough in trade -- 15 Regional and global goods -- 16 Getting started in 2005: launching a decade of bold ambition -- Part 4 The costs and benefits of achieving the Millennium Development Goals -- 17 Resources required to finance the Millennium Development Goals -- 18 The benefits: the case for a decade of bold ambition -- Appendix 1 Millennium Development Goals interventions by area -- Appendix 2 Millennium Development Goals interventions by target -- Appendix 3 Assumptions underlying the resource estimates in chapter -- Appendix 4 Methodology and data sources for projecting progress toward the Goals in table 18.1 -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments.