Reduce infant and child mortality rates by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. Reduce maternal mortality ratios by three-quarters by 2015. Skilled care during pregnancy and delivery can help to avoid many of the half million maternal deaths each year. Provide access for all to reproductive health services by 2015. The proportion of people in poverty may have declined through the mid-1990s, but population growth meant that the number of poor people has increased.
Contraceptive use is one indicator of access to reproductive health.
Implement national strategies for sustainable development by 2005 so as to reverse the loss of environmental resources by 2015. The goals, says the report, should be viewed together because they are mutually reinforcing. Higher school enrollments, especially for girls, reduce poverty and mortality. Better basic health care increases enrollment and reduces poverty. As A Better World for All clearly warns, none of the goals will be easy to achieve.