MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: OUR SUCCESSES AND SLIP-UPS – AN EVIDENCE-BASED REVIEW

Abstract

Impediments are concrete and objective factors that slow down our march toward success. Imponderables are also impediments, but are often shrouded in mystery and puzzlement. They are harder to explain or explain away. An example of an impediment is the popular resistance to polio vaccination that surfaced in Nigeria in 2003. Closer home, quite recently, something happened in West Bengal that could have shaken people's faith in the safety of vaccination. A mix up of
vaccines resulted in the children receiving them being hospitalized (The Hindu, 2013). An imponderable is why the Government of India chose to devote just a few lines to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in its 3-volume Eleventh Plan Document.