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Azerbaijan launched the ”State Programme on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development” (SPPRED) in 2003 in order to reduce poverty and improve living standards of its citizens. The SPPRED sets out concrete policy actions in order to achieve these aims. Later the Government of Azerbaijan aligned SPPRED with the process of implementing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

This report summarizes the progress made by Azerbaijan in implementing the SPPRED in the two-year period 2003-2004. It updates the information provided in the first SPPRED implementation report and, it reports both on SPPRED implementation and on progress made in the country discussion of national MDGs. In this sense, it represents a combined SPPRED implementation/country MDG report.

The report notes that since the launch of the Programme, Azerbaijan has made significant progress in achieving the goals set out in the SPPRED, and also in defining its country-specific Millennium Development Goals.

This report:

• summarizes the MDG debate in the country, and places this within the context of the global discussion on MDGs
• It attempts to use the available statistical information in order to look at the status of indicators, which can be used to monitor various dimensions of poverty
• It looks at indicators for demography, economic development, income poverty, employment, education, health, social protection, and environment.
• It represents a summary of all the implementation reports for the period of 2003-2004 provided by the 15 Sector Working Groups working under the SPPRED
• It provides a summary of the Town Hall Meetings and participatory discussions with civil society held in 2003-2004 within the framework of participation process

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