The full latest official report is now available on the UN website. (Note that it is in PDF format, requiring availability of the Adobe Acrobat reader on your computer.) In it United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that the world will fail to meet the Millennium Development Goals unless wealthier countries dramatically boost their international aid budgets. Even in Asian countries where rapid economic growth is helping to cut poverty numbers, the region still faces serious challenges in meeting goals on clean water access, boosting child and maternal survival rates and protecting the environment.