Voices of Youth: Find out if your country is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, learn how you can take action, and join a discussion. Cyberschoolbus: See examples of successful ...

You have heard me say it on more than one occasion that the world’s problems are all primarily economic in nature. Economics is about how we allocate our scarce resources among competing ends. If ...

Eight global millennium development goals were established in 2000 by member states of the United Nations (UN) and endorsed ...

On 8 September 2000, full of optimism and resolve, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Millennium Declaration (resolution 55/2)[1], reaffirming that development, together with peace and ...

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 ...

15-MAY-05The African Development Bank Group has scaled up its intervention mechanisms in support of the regional members countries to enable them achieve the Millennium Development Goals set out by ...

TUNISIAONLINENEWS- According to UN officials, Tunisia is among the few African countries to have achieved the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before 2015 thanks to its multi-dimensional ...

In the run up to the football World Cup, which kicks off next month in South Africa, some of Africa’s most renowned musicians have joined the United Nations to call for a commitment to achieve the ...

HelpAge International is calling on governments to invest in “social transfer schemes” – which provide guaranteed minimum levels of income – as a way of achieving the Millennium Development Goals ...

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 – ...