This report tries to advance one of the most important tasks before the International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD)in March 2002 by attempting to answer a single critical question: What will it take, in resource terms, to meet the universal human development goals of the Millennium Declaration – the Millennium Development Goals? Prepared specially for the Conference, the report takes one step further the work that UNDP — as chief “scorekeeper” for the goals — has undertaken in conjunction with other agencies of the UN system to prepare progress reports on the MDGs in every country.