Ethiopia was one of the 189 member states that adopted the Millennium Declaration in 2000 and
committed itself to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. This paper assesses the
implication of Millennium Development Goals adopted by the country and the challenges faced to
accomplish the targets. The implication Millennium Development Goals in Ethiopia reveals that (1) the
poverty has declined to 29% in 2010 from 44% during 2000. (2) During 2010 the Gross Enrolment Rate
for primary school reached 95.9% and Net Enrolment Rate stood at 89.3%. (3) To achieve gender
equality Government has incorporated gender issues in different national policies including health,
education and training, HIV/AIDS, population and others. (4) Health Sector Development Programme
reveals that a reduction of mortality rates among children under-five from 166/1,000 in 2000 to 88/1,000
in 2011 and the infant mortality rate from 97 to 59 per 1000 live births. Neonatal mortality rate reduced
from 49 per 1000 in 2000 to 37 in the year 2011. (5) The maternal mortality rate has also declined to
676/100,000 in 2011 from 871/100,000 live births in 2001. (6) HIV prevalence in 2011 was estimated to
be 1.5% with 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS which is far below than 2000 year. (7) To achieve
environmental sustainability, various proclamations, including the Environment Impact Assessment
Proclamation, Pollution Control Proclamation, Industrial Waste Handling and others have been
formulated. (8) To capture global partnership, share of ODA and exports to GDP, and bilateral and
multilateral flows as a share of GDP can be used to monitor progress of increased economic integration
and international cooperation. Despite the impressive growth record, low levels of income and
productivity in the agricultural sector, limited implementation capacity, unemployment and a narrow
modern industrial sector base are the major challenges. Besides, the growth efforts have also been
threatened by the twin challenges of inflation and balance of payments. The various impacts of climate
change will have a dampening effect on Ethiopia’s economic growth rates and adversely affect the
prospects for achieving MDG targets. With adequate support from the international community to
address the challenges, the country is on a positive and promising track to meeting the MDGs by 2015
Real Time Impact Factor:
Pending
Author Name: R. Dayanandan
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Keywords: achievement, Development
ISSN: 2321-1423
EISSN: 2320-0685
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