This report presents innovative policies and progammes which countries have adopted to accelerate progress on the MDGs. The aim is to help document policy innovations for SDG implementation, but also keep
The 14 Asia-Pacific least developed countries (LDCs) will need as much as $47.3 billion (about Rs 2,00,000 crore) by 2015 to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), set by the United
Bangladesh needs to scale up measures for ensuring access to safe (arsenic and pathogen free) drinking water to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in water supply and sanitation by 2015.
<p> The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have increased support for poverty reduction. For over a decade, they have provided a ‘moral compass’ to measure progress towards crucial human
Planners and development economists in the world are struggling to redeem the three billion human beings from the pangs of hunger. Empowered by the Millennium Development Goal, a United Nations
Unless progress takes place at a faster pace, poorer states in India, as also in Pakistan and Afganistan , would find it difficult to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) on primary
Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman has renewed Bangladesh's commitment to ensure services to the poor women during their pregnancy towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Difficulties in raising sufficient domestic and external resources to finance the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), along with the numerous drawbacks
Although the country has made significant progress in reducing under-five child mortality, the rates of neonatal and maternal mortality still remain high, creating obstacle to achieving the target of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) four and five by 2015.
The developed countries are not standing by their commitment to provide 0.7% of their GDP as funds for the developing world towards achieving the millennium development goals, said UN Millennium
Following are the main proposals issued from an advisory body the United Nations set up to help achieve its Millennium development goals. Those goals, agreed in 2000, are to cut in half extreme
This compendium is released on the target year of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While there has been remarkable progress on the MDGs, such as halving the population in extreme poverty 5 years
EU wants to rally member states to support development plan that commits to poverty reduction through sustainable growth The European commission on Wednesday called for merging the fight against poverty
About one-third of the world’s population — 2.4 billion people — will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a joint WHO/Unicef report issued on Monday. The report — Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2013 update, warns that at the current rate of progress, the 2015 millennium development goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of the 1990 population without sanitation will be missed by 8 per cent, or half a billion people.
<p>This paper introduces a methodology that measures the effort made by countries in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The methodology compares the rate of progress on MDG indicators in the period before and after the adoption of the MDGs. Correct for two biases ignored in previous methodologies: non-linearity in the rate of change, and effort appreciation.
A Rajasthan based non government organisation has bagged a prestigious United Nations assignment to raise awareness on the significance and ownership of the Millennium Development Goals
The policy formulation, declarations and achievements of the Government in the context of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were examined in a report released in Jaipur on
South Asia will need to maintain the average economic growth rate of 5.8% it achieved in 1995-2005 to achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) of reducing extreme poverty by mid-2015. According
The Chiba, Japan-based United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP) is organising a three-day inception seminar on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG. The Union
Despite encouraging progress in reducing poverty and improving the working lives of people in Asia under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), unemployment reached a record high while job growth
