Niger: Can Governments Agree a Fairytale Ending for All?

A child born in the region of Niger with the highest mortality rate is five times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than if they were born in the region with the lowest rate

The story of the Millennium Development Goals agreed in the year 2000 has a touch of the fairy tale about it: absolute poverty halved, 50 million more children in school, 14,000 fewer child deaths each day. Magic. The story and its statistics are, rightly, a much loved development achievement.

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