Millennium Development Goals’ Poverty-Education-Gender-Access to Clean Water Nexus: Empirical Evidence from a Tanzanian Household Survey

The United Nations Declaration of 2000 adopted eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) designed to forge a new global partnership. Among the MDGs are: to reduce extreme poverty, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, and access to clean drinking water. The declaration set out a series of time-bound targets to track progress. The members of the United Nations have pledged to meet the set goals by 2015. However, to date, little empirical studies exist identifying the linkages among MDGs. This study examines the poverty-education-gender-access to clean water nexus using cross-sectional household-level data from Tanzania. In examining the nexus, this study presents a range of descriptive statistics as well as regression analysis.