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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are in many ways the Cinderella of international development. When 160 world leaders met at the United Nations in September 2000, they were inspired ...

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.

With less than 500 days for the international community to achieve a set of eight developmental goals, here's a look at how much progress has been made.

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 ...