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 Millennium Development Goals, commonly known as MDGs, are the targets adopted by world leaders in 2000 to promote development and health care in the poorest countries of the world. The cut-off ...

21 September 2011 A workshop aimed at training government officials to survey commitments made on women and children's welfare and their implementation is underway at City Seasons Hotel. The five-day ...

Doing more, better and faster - Europe cares ... Today leaders from around the world are gathered in New York at the UN General Assembly for a review of progress in achieving the Millennium ...

The Asia and Pacific region as a whole is on track to achieve most of the millennium development goals (MDGs), but progress in many individual countries, including Pakistan, is slow and performance on ...

Many countries in the Asian and Pacific region are still falling behind the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) proposed by the United Nations, although the region as a whole is on track to achieve ...

This paper examines whether Chinese development finance is associated with faster progress toward Millennium Development Goal style targets in low- and middle-income countries. We combine AidData’s ...

BBC World Service Trust looks to expand United Nations Millennium Development Goals project An ambitious media project to stimulate global debate about the challenge of achieving the Millennium ...

March 26, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, Salil Shetty said Ethiopia is in a very good position to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In an ...