By IPS Correspondents
Dec 29 2010 (IPS)

We are two-thirds of the way to achieving the Millennium Development Goals – in terms of time, not by way of meeting the target. Achievements are failing widely in the march to the 2015 targets agreed by world leaders in 2000. But there are successes too, and five years still to go over which speeded up efforts can go a long way to fighting poverty and to promoting health and education — aims that are at the heart of the eight MDGs. IPS here reports on the progress and the shortfalls on way to those goals.