This is a regional comparative analysis of child related goals and targets, conducted by UNICEF/ECLAC.

This paper in an inquiry into the possibility of progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets for health that does not significantly benefit the disadvantaged people whom the MDGs are intended to serve. The possibility arises because the MDGs health targets, unlike most other prominent MDGs targets, are stated in terms of improvements in social averages rather than in terms of gains among poor groups within societies. Since improvements in any group, including the better off, would produce improvements in societal averages, progress towards targets expressed in those terms does not necessarily reflect improvements in conditions among the poor.