A recent analysis from the World Bank said that the majority of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will not be met in fragile countries by the target date of 2015. However, 20 unstable countries met one or more MDG targets since 2011 including reducing poverty, implementing gender equality, improving access to water, among many others.
The 20 fragile and conflict-affected countries or territorial entities now meeting one or more targets are: Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Comoros, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Kiribati, Liberia, Libya, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sudan, Syria, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, and Palestine.
Despite that, the World Bank warned of a reverse in these gains if conflicts relapsed and/or continued.
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