title: Health in the developing world: achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
abstract: The Millennium Development Goals depend critically on scaling up public health investments in developing countries. As a matter of urgency, developing-country governments must present detailed investment plans that are sufficiently ambitious to meet the goals, and the plans must be inserted into existing donor processes. Donor countries must keep the promises they have often reiterated of increased assistance, which they can easily afford, to help improve health in the developing countries and ensure stability for the whole world.
authors.affiliation: Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, Columbia University, 314 Low Library MC 4327, 535 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA. sachs@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Sachs
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D003906:Developing Countries / Q000191:economics*; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006292:Health Priorities; D040361:Healthy People Programs; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000191:economics*