MDGs
- Global Report on MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health
- M. Bianco 2010
- It is important to recognize that improving maternal health goes hand in hand with the improvement of other social determinants that go beyond women’s needs in health care services. Poverty, gender inequity and the obstacles that...
- Children and the Millennium Development Goals: Fragile Gains and Deep Inequalities
- P. Dornan / Young Lives, 2010
- This paper aims to inform the debate around achievement of the MDG Goals using evidence and analysis from Young Lives, which first collected data in 2002 and is following two cohorts of children. While acknowledging progress in regard...
- Progress Towards the MDGs? Fragile Gains and Deep Inequalities
- K. Brock / Young Lives, 2010
- The target date for the Millennium Development Goals is only five years away. Much remains to be done if progress towards achieving them is to be sustained. Young Lives research is tracking 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and...
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: A Measure of Progress
- D. Hailu / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2011
- This paper introduces a methodology that measures the effort made by countries in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The methodology compares the rate of progress on MDG indicators in the period before and after the ad...
- Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh and Information and Communication Technology
- A. Raihan / Development Research Network, 2012
- The Paper aspires to link ICT and poverty alleviation and improve the livelihood of the poor and the disadvantaged through technology, by providing them access to information and knowledge. Today, ICT is a crucial factor for offering ...
- To the MDGs and beyond: accountability and institutional innovation in Bangladesh
- World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2007
- Bangladesh is on track to achieve most of the MDG goals, even the difficult ones like infant and maternal mortality provided that the quality and institutional mechanisms of service delivery to the poor are improved.
- Investigating MDGs unity ― can hunger be tackled apart from poverty?
- J. Fanzo; P. Pronyk; A. Dasgupta / United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2010
- One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015. This paper warns that many countries remain far from reaching this target, a...
- Economic growth alone is insufficient for eliminating hunger - halving hunger is linked to other MDGs
- P.A. Sanchez; M.S. Swaminathan / Millennium Project, 2005
- It is unpleasant news that acute hunger represents 10% of the hungry yet receives most of the media coverage and attention. This paper raises the flag that chronic and hidden hunger deserves much more global attention and support. ...
- How Universal is Access to Reproductive Health?: A Review of the Evidence
- United Nations Population Fund, 2010
- This report looks at the progress of achieving MDG targets relating to reproductive health and the emphasis of this report is on identifying areas where progress has been made and where it has lagged for three indicators of access to ...
- Food prices, nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals
- World Bank, 2012
- This report highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices. It notes that in 2007-2008 and again in 2011, spikes in food prices prevented the achievement of pover...
- Global Report on MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health
- M. Bianco 2010
- It is important to recognize that improving maternal health goes hand in hand with the improvement of other social determinants that go beyond women’s needs in health care services. Poverty, gender inequity and the obstacles that...
- Children and the Millennium Development Goals: Fragile Gains and Deep Inequalities
- P. Dornan / Young Lives, 2010
- This paper aims to inform the debate around achievement of the MDG Goals using evidence and analysis from Young Lives, which first collected data in 2002 and is following two cohorts of children. While acknowledging progress in regard...
- Progress Towards the MDGs? Fragile Gains and Deep Inequalities
- K. Brock / Young Lives, 2010
- The target date for the Millennium Development Goals is only five years away. Much remains to be done if progress towards achieving them is to be sustained. Young Lives research is tracking 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and...
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: A Measure of Progress
- D. Hailu / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2011
- This paper introduces a methodology that measures the effort made by countries in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The methodology compares the rate of progress on MDG indicators in the period before and after the ad...
- Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh and Information and Communication Technology
- A. Raihan / Development Research Network, 2012
- The Paper aspires to link ICT and poverty alleviation and improve the livelihood of the poor and the disadvantaged through technology, by providing them access to information and knowledge. Today, ICT is a crucial factor for offering ...
- To the MDGs and beyond: accountability and institutional innovation in Bangladesh
- World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2007
- Bangladesh is on track to achieve most of the MDG goals, even the difficult ones like infant and maternal mortality provided that the quality and institutional mechanisms of service delivery to the poor are improved.
- Investigating MDGs unity ― can hunger be tackled apart from poverty?
- J. Fanzo; P. Pronyk; A. Dasgupta / United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2010
- One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015. This paper warns that many countries remain far from reaching this target, a...
- Economic growth alone is insufficient for eliminating hunger - halving hunger is linked to other MDGs
- P.A. Sanchez; M.S. Swaminathan / Millennium Project, 2005
- It is unpleasant news that acute hunger represents 10% of the hungry yet receives most of the media coverage and attention. This paper raises the flag that chronic and hidden hunger deserves much more global attention and support. ...
- How Universal is Access to Reproductive Health?: A Review of the Evidence
- United Nations Population Fund, 2010
- This report looks at the progress of achieving MDG targets relating to reproductive health and the emphasis of this report is on identifying areas where progress has been made and where it has lagged for three indicators of access to ...
- Food prices, nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals
- World Bank, 2012
- This report highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices. It notes that in 2007-2008 and again in 2011, spikes in food prices prevented the achievement of pover...
- United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP)
- On 9 August 2010, the Secretary-General launched the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) that brings together renowned world figures to formulate a new blueprint for a sustainable future on a planet under increasing stress resulting from human activities. Recognizing that climate change, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, the destruction of ecosystems and shifting demogra...
- Countdown to 2015
- The Countdown to 2015 Initiative tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality.It calls on governments and development partners to be accountable, identifies knowledge gaps and proposes new actions to reach Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. The Countdown Initiative is a supra-institu...
- Centre for the Millennium Development Goals (CMDG)
- Information on the MDGs
- United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Centre in Colombo
Centre of UNDP's work in Asia and the Pacific
