Key recommendations in new UN report on poverty
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
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
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
<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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
<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>
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,
"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
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
This book published by Asian Development Bank (ADB) provides examples of possible triple-win solutions for simultaneously reducing poverty, raising the quality of the environment, and adapting to climate change. It consists of sixteen case studies in Southeast and East Asia, and from the Pacific.
<p>Urban population in developing countries will rise from 2.7 billion in 2012 to 5.2 billion in 2050 and will pose severe environmental challenges warns this 2014 edition of World Development indicators published by the World Bank with high-quality cross-country comparable statistics about development and people’s lives around the globe.</p>
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