OREANDA-NEWS. September 27, 2013. This was announced by Adrian Lupusor, Expert Grup CEO when presenting the third national report on MDG implementation.

As he states, Moldova has made progress in building the information society: in 2012 penetration of mobile communications services made up 114.6% against 37.8% reported in 2006 and exceeded the target of 75.6%. Our country has managed to reduce the poverty level (a number of people spending less than USD4.3 a day) from 34.5% in 2006 to 20.8% in 2012. However, Moldova has failed to achieve one of the first and foremost goals, namely development of a transparent and predictable commercial and financial system through promotion of export and attraction of investment.

Researchers point out a need for Moldova’s more advantageous integration with the global economy and for overcoming external economic shocks and internal problems Moldovan business community is facing. According to Adrian Lupusor, a big gap between well-being in urban areas and in rural ones as well as emigration, lack of innovative technologies and gender discrimination remain main obstacles to Moldova’s development.

 The first national report on MDG implementation was presented in 2005. It read that within 1998-2002 Moldova managed to one third reduce extreme poverty. The second report was introduced in 2010. The Millennium Development Goals are 8 goals 193 UN members agreed to achieve by 2015. Among them, there are eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, combating HIV and other epidemic disease, developing a global partnership for development.