Much more needs to be done if the world is to hit its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets to reduce poverty and improve the quality of life for millions of people by 2015, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday, DPA reported. Halfway towards the deadline, he presented the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date on the eight key goals or MDGs agreed in 2000 and admitted the results were mixed. "There have been some gains and that success is still possible in most parts of the world," said Ban in the forward to the report. "But they also point to how much remains to be done." Progress had been made on the key target of reducing extreme poverty by half with the numbers living on less than a dollar a day dropping by 32 per cent from 1.25 billion in 1990 to 19 per cent or 980 million in 2004.
