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 ...

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

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Most African countries are lagging behind in achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals and will not make as much progress in health, nutrition 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 ...

The success of the United Nations' global sustainability targets is often measured through economic growth—but what about how ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pursuit of endless industrial growth is chewing through our living planet, producing poverty and threatening our existence. The new Sustainable Development Goals fail to deal with this. The ...

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 – ...

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 ...