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1 UN. General Assembly, “United Nations Millennium Declaration”, резолюция, принятая Генеральной Ассамблеей 8 сентября 2000 г.; World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2007: Millennium Development Goals (Washington, DC: 2007), p. 39; World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2009: A Development Emergency (Washington, DC: 2009), p. 17.

2 World Bank, “Millennium Development Goals – Country Tables”, – см.: www.developmentgoals.org, последнее обновление в апреле 2009 года; U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The2008 Revision Population Database, – см.: esa.un.org/unpp, последнее обновление 11 марта 2009 года.

3 World Bank, op. cit. note 2; U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 2; Jeffrey D. Sachs, “India Takes the Lead”, Korea Herald , 4 August 2004; International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Economic Outlook , электронная база данных – см.: www.imf.org, последнее обновление в апреле 2009 г.

4 UNESCO, Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance Matters, Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2009 (Paris: 2008), p. 195; Sara Miller Liana, “Brazil Becomes Antipoverty Showcase”, Christian Science Monitor, 13 November 2008; World Bank, op. cit. note 2; U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 2.

5 U.N. Statistics Division, Millennium Development Goals Indicators , электронная база данных – см.: mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Data.aspx, последнее обновление 14 июля 2009 г; World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2008: MDGs and the Environment (Washington, DC: 2008), p. 2.

6 World Bank, Global Economic Prospects: Commodities at a Crossroads 2009 (Washington, DC: 2009), pp. 11–12; World Bank, Poverty Data: A Supplement to World Development Indicators 2008 (Washington, DC: 2008), p. 1.

7 U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 2; G-8 leaders, “Gleneagles Communiqueˆ on Africa, Climate Change, Energy and Sustainable Development”, document from G-8 Summit, Gleneagles, Scotland, July 2005; нестабильные государства по информации World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2007, op. cit. note 1, p. 4.

8 U.N. General Assembly, op. cit. note 1.

9 World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2009, op. cit. note 1, p. 14; U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, “1.02 Billion People Hungry”, press release (Rome: 19 June 2009); U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Production, Supply and Distribution, электронная база данных – см.:

;www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, последнее обновление 12 мая 2009 года; USDA, Feedgrains Database, электронная база данных на www.ers. usda.gov/Data/feedgrains, последнее обновление 19 мая 2009 года; U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 2.

10 UNESCO, op. cit. note 4, p. 65.

11 Martha Campbell et al., “Return of the Population Growth Factor”, Science, vol. 315 (16 March 2007), pp. 1501–1502; Martha Campbell, дискуссия с Джанет Ларсен, Earth Policy Institute, 8 октября 2007 г.; All Party Parliamentary Group on Population Development and Reproductive Health, Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact on the Millennium Development Goals (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, January 2007), pp. 1–9.

12 World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2009 , op. cit. note 1, p. 19; Hilaire A. Mputu, Literacy and Non-Formal Education in the E-9 Countries (Paris: UNESCO, 2001), p. 5; Polly Curtis, “Lack of Education ‘a Greater Threat than Terrorism’: Sen”, Guardian (London), 28 October 2003.

13 Paul Blustein, “Global Education Plan Gains Backing”, Washington Post, 22 April 2002; World Bank, “World Bank Announces First Group of Countries for ‘Education For All’ Fast Track”, press release (Washington, DC: 12 June 2002); Gene Sperling, “The G-8 – Send 104 Million Friends to School”, Bloomberg News, 20 June 2005.

14 United Nations, Millennium Development Goals Report 2008 (New York: 2008), p. 14; World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2009, op. cit. note 1, Annex.

15 Gene Sperling, “Toward Universal Education”, Foreign Affairs, September/ October 2001, pp. 7–13.

16 Gene Sperling, “Educate Them All”, Washington Post, 20 April 2002.

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