Balochistan pledges to resolve water issues
Balochistan will play its role in the formation of a national drinking water and sanitation policy to make it a comprehensive and effective document for achieving UN millennium development goals.
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80pc literacy rate by 2010, says minister
Pakistan Minister for Education Lt-Gen (retired) Javed Ashraf Qazi has said the ountry will achieve the targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the education sector. He was
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Record improvement in water projects
The Government has made a record improvement in the completion and expansion of water projects throughout the country in keeping with the UN-declared Millennium Development Goal of providing access
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Regional overview of food insecurity in Africa
According to the first edition of the Regional Overview of Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015), Angola, Djibouti, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Mali and Sao Tome & Principe met both the relevant Millennium
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Nepal likely to fall behind in health goals
Nepal is likely to fall behind the race in meeting Millennium Development Goals, given the alarming gap in Basic and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric facilities, Dr Sudha Sharma, president of Nepal
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Making it happen: Technology, finance and statistics for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific (Asia-Pacific Regional MDG Report 2014/15)
The end of 2015 is the target date for the Millennium Development Goals. Governments across Asia and the Pacific have been striving to meet the Goals, particularly on reducing income poverty. Some subregions
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Global goals and the environment: progress and prospects
This report provides a comprehensive overview of progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7, Ensuring Environmental Sustainability, based on official indicators and data. Relying on statistical evidence,
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Health is wealth
An additional 2.5% growth in government health spending as a share of the Gross Domestic Product would enable India and South Asian states, to reach their Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015,
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WB chief coming with aid promise
"India's development success will play a critical role in attaining the millennium development goal of halving poverty by 2015," World Bank president James D Wolfensohn said prior to his two-day
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Millennium Development Goals India Country Report 2015
This report entitled "Millennium Development Goals India Country Report 2015", which is the latest in a series of such reports since 2005, captures India's achievements and challenges in respect of the
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Denmark eager to help agri development
Denmark is interested in agriculture development of Bangladesh, as agriculture is the main instrument to reduce poverty and achieve millennium development goals, Danish ambassador Niels Seurein Munk
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Pak, Lanka better than India on hunger index
Faced with disturbing hunger and malnourished levels, India is expected to miss the crucial UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly those related to reduction in poverty, hunger and infant
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2.50 lakh children die in Bangladesh every year
bangladesh, with lower rates of child mortality than noth Indian and Pakistan, is on tack to meet the UN Millennium Development Goal target of reducing by two thirds the mrotlity rate among children
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Pit latrines and their impacts on groundwater quality: A systematic review
<p>Pit latrines are one of the most common human excreta disposal systems in low-income countries, and their use is on the rise as countries aim to meet the sanitation-related target of the Millennium
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Ecosystem Based Adaptation (EBA) for food security in Africa: towards a comprehensive strategic framework to upscale and out-scale EbA-driven agriculture in Africa
Africa faces a myriad of hurdles on its way to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the post-2015 development agenda. Climate change, population growth, youth bulge, widespread unemployment,
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Tuning in to secure food
<p>Food security is back in the headlines along with some hard-to-answer questions about how to achieve Millennium Development Goal. One of the solutions can be found in technology adapted for use on small farms in Africa. Gary Humphreys reports.<br /> </p>
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MDG report 2014: assessing progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals
While an increasing number of Africans are enjoying higher living standards, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa should redouble efforts to ensure crises such as the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa do
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MCC to tie-up with UN-Habitat
After the Delta Twining project, the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) is going international again by joining hands with UN-Habitat in the project ''Water for Asian cities,'' under United Nations Human Settlement Programme. Speaking to Deccan Herald, MCC Commissioner Dr K N Vijayprakash said that the project is an initiative by United Nations, Millennium Development Goals which aims to give saf
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Measuring acute poverty in the Developing World: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index
This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person’s inability to meet simultaneously minimum international standards in indicators related
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UN officials feel Sulabh technology is revolutionary
Representatives of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal Committee on Water and Sanitation are currently on a visit to India, to formulate policies and strategies to achieve the Millennium