BOSTON — In April 2007, the General Assembly of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations convened to discuss progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
This annual report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations ...
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most ...
The Record of the Millennium Development Goals in States Affected by Conflict, Fragility, and Crisis
John Norris is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative at the Center for American Progress. Casey Dunning is a senior policy analyst for the Rethinking US ...
A new analysis is the first to apply a novel metric for evaluating improvements in sanitation across individual countries between 1990 and 2015, surfacing insights that could inform further progress.
Sept 21 (Reuters) - World leaders urged countries on Tuesday to intensify efforts to meet U.N. anti-poverty goals and African leaders said developing countries should take responsibility for their own ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. It’s a gloomy milestone. For the second year running, the world has ...
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – ...
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