Yet with only 500 days until the end of the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, criticism remains that many countries will be unable to reach what can be considered arbitrary global targets.

At the beginning of the new millennium, the world decided to make tackling global poverty a top priority. The MDGs attempted to address this through a set of eight specific goals and 21 targets.

As the UN Millennium Development Goals are scrutinised in New York, SciDev.Net finds out what — if anything — science has contributed. When the United Nations published the eight Millennium ...

ADOPTED by world leaders in 2000, the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide benchmarks for halving extreme poverty around the globe by 2015. If the eight goals — from ...

Millennium Development Goals, set by the United Nations 10 years ago, include initiatives to protect the environment, increase development aid, open the global trading and financial system ...

With Unicef saying that infant mortality is at an all-time low, how close is the world to achieving the UN's millennium development goals? September 2005 Next week the UN meets to review progress ...

Today’s post explores debates over the Millennium Development Goals, their track record, and their future. With 2015 rapidly approaching, governments, NGOs, ...

A new study suggests that the United Nations' much-lauded Millennium Development Goals, which expire in the year 2015, did not accelerate developmental progress globally after they were announced ...

The millennium development goals are eight aspirational targets set by the United Nations (UN) in New York in September 2000, explain Dr Mark Beattie and colleagues.

The UN leader urges world leaders attending a summit to rededicate themselves to reaching the Millennium Development Goals. Despite some successes on poverty and school enrollment, many challenges ...