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This annual report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kojo Quartey, president Monroe County Community College You have heard me say it on more than one occasion that the world’s ...

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 ...

John Norris is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative at the Center for American Progress. Casey Dunning is a senior policy analyst for the Rethinking US ...

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 ...

A new analysis is the first to apply a novel metric for evaluating improvements in sanitation across individual countries between 1990 and 2015, surfacing insights that could inform further progress.

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Sept 21 (Reuters) - World leaders urged countries on Tuesday to intensify efforts to meet U.N. anti-poverty goals and African leaders said developing countries should take responsibility for their own ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit next September to boost efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Coming amid mixed progress toward the ...