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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and HungerPoverty - Target likely to be achieved
Hunger - Target unlikely to be achieved
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Possible to achieve if changes are made
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Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Targets possible to achieve if changes are made
Reduce Child Mortality
Targets likely to be achieved
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Improve Maternal Health
Improve Maternal Health Targets possible to achieve if changes are made
Combat HIV and AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases
HIV and AIDS - Target Possible to achieve if changes are made
Tuberculosis - Target likely to be achieved
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Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Environment - Target Possible to achieve if changes are made
Water and Sanitation - Target Likely to be achieved
Global Partnership for Development
Poverty - Target likely to be achieved
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Goal 1 / Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Poverty - Target likely to be achieved
The country's current poverty level is 25.4 per cent, suggesting that it has been reduced by 5.5 percentage points since 2005.The 2008-2009 assessment of variation in poverty incidence geographically and socially remains much the same as 2005 reporting period. The 2009 assessment indicates that 95.5 per cent of poor people live in rural areas and the incidence of poverty in rural areas (28.5 per cent) is almost four times higher than that in urban areas (7.6 per cent). Furthermore poverty reduction rate in rural areas (18 per cent) is slower than that in urban areas (20 per cent). Remittances are one of the main contributors to poverty reduction. Sustained poverty reduction is possible only with higher levels of employment generation through greater investment and growth and private sector is one of the key players. Agriculture should be revived for young people and workers to return from abroad.
Hunger - Target unlikely to be achieved
49 percent of Nepalese children under five are chronically malnourished (stunted). This figure is within the top five in the world. Although there has been some development on the hunger indicators in the past, the recent rapid rise in food prices and the consequences of climate change pose the main challenges in achieving the target. The limited growth in agricultural output needs to be addressed through increased irrigation facilities, improved market access and better use of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, as well as giving due attention to climate change and deforestation.
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