Bill Clinton:

“In 2000, the United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals. 

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It pledged to cut in half the number [?] of people living in extreme poverty (less than $1 a day) by 2015; 
to reduce by half the number [?] of people suffering from hunger; …
to end the disparity in school performance between boys and girls 
to reduce mortality among children under five by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-quarters;
to cut in half the number [?] of people without access to clean water;
and to halt and begin to reverse the incidence of HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and other major infectious diseases.”

[MB: See comments below.]

Bill Clinton
Giving (book)
2007


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The US has at various times insisted that “Millennium Development Goals” means the goals in the Millennium Declaration.  

However, it would seem likely that some readers, perhaps particularly those not in the US, would take him to mean the largely easier targets which Mr Clinton had not agreed in 2000.    

Mr Clinton’s book also gives financial estimates for meeting the “Millennium Development Goals” which may be based on the easier 1990 baseline.   

In any case, in addition to the baseline problem, the implication that the $1 is a real dollar and his confusion of numbers with proportions, he omits the facts that:

- he, with other leaders in 2000, made pledges – and did not just “adopt goals”;  

- those pledges went far beyond those in the “development and poverty eradication” section of the Millennium Declaration;  and 

- at the 2005 Summit leaders reaffirmed agreements made at previous UN conferences and summits.