"We will have time
to reach the Millennium Development Goals – worldwide and in most, or even
all, individual countries – but only if we break with business as usual. We cannot win overnight. Success will require
sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. It takes time to train the teachers, nurses and engineers;
to build the roads, schools and hospitals; to grow the small and large businesses able to create the jobs and income needed.
So we must start now. And we must more than double global development assistance over the next few years. Nothing less will
help to achieve the Goals."
Former United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi A. Annan
