The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2009 argues that further progress has been made towards fulfilling the promises embodied in MDG 8 – Developing the Global Partnership for Development. However, MDG 8 has suffered important setbacks, most of which have arisen from the current state of the world economy which is experiencing its severest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the countdown to 2015, urgent responses are needed to bridge…