MDGs
- Policy priorities for achieving the MDGs
- Development Committee, World Bank & IMF, 2003
- This paper deals with the monitoring of policies and actions for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and related outcomes. It proposes a monitoring framework and reviews a range of policy indicators and supporting data t...
- Strengths and weaknesses of the PRSP process in Zambia
- V. Seshamani / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
- This paper reviews the experience of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process in Zambia, which took place between 2000 and 2002. Some of the process’ strengths are: the development of a comprehens...
- What do recent development strategies in Africa have in common?
- D.K. Kubalasa / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003
- This paper reviews the main development strategies that have been pursued in Africa since the 1970s with the aim of stirring a debate that can be helpful in the search for new opportunities for poverty reduction in the region. ...
- Does rich countries’ aid to basic education match their rhetoric?
- B. Phillips / ActionAid International, 2003
- This report examines the performance of 22 rich country leaders on their promise to provide the aid needed for every child to get an education. The figures used to make the assessment are taken from data supplied by rich countries the...
- Is the HIPC Initiative succeeding in bringing debt sustainability to Africa?
- H. Northover / UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003
- This paper critically analyses the HIPC Initiative and its effects on debt sustainability and the recipient countries’ capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. It argues that HIPC Initiative has some key weaknesses w...
- Improvement in basic infrastructure necessary to achieve MDGs
- M. Fay; D. Leipziger; Q. Wodon; T. Yepes / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003
- This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of child health in order to make the case for the importance of combining interventions, including access to basic infrastructure services, in order to meet the Millennium ...
- WDR 2004 has a preference for market based reforms
- R. Gerster / Gerster Consulting, 2003
- This paper presents a critical assessment of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People. It claims that the report has as strengths: the emphasis on basic services b...
- Debt relief should play a larger role in financing development
- UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003
- Assessments of Africa’s financing needs and prospects for debt relief need to be put in the wider context of financing for development. The paper argues that debt relief is an important source of finance for African countries but...
- Two years after Dakar: on the road to EFA?
- Christopher Colclough; Steve Packer; Simon Ellis; Jan Van Ravens; Ulrika Peppler Barry; Nicole Bella; Valerie Djioze; Hilaire Mputu; Carlos Aggio; Mariana Cifuentes-Montoya / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Is the world on track to achieve the millennium target of Education for All (EFA) by 2015? Are the six EFA commitments made in April 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar being met? How can we plug gaps in knowledge about schooli...
- A comprehensive development framework progress report
- World Bank, 2003
- This report reviews the implementation of the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) principles in 48 low-income countries. It generally shows that countries that are making progress in implementing the CDF principles generally per...
- Is the HIPC Initiative succeeding in bringing debt sustainability to Africa?
- H. Northover / UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003
- This paper critically analyses the HIPC Initiative and its effects on debt sustainability and the recipient countries’ capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. It argues that HIPC Initiative has some key weaknesses w...
- Improvement in basic infrastructure necessary to achieve MDGs
- M. Fay; D. Leipziger; Q. Wodon; T. Yepes / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003
- This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of child health in order to make the case for the importance of combining interventions, including access to basic infrastructure services, in order to meet the Millennium ...
- WDR 2004 has a preference for market based reforms
- R. Gerster / Gerster Consulting, 2003
- This paper presents a critical assessment of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People. It claims that the report has as strengths: the emphasis on basic services b...
- Debt relief should play a larger role in financing development
- UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003
- Assessments of Africa’s financing needs and prospects for debt relief need to be put in the wider context of financing for development. The paper argues that debt relief is an important source of finance for African countries but...
- Two years after Dakar: on the road to EFA?
- Christopher Colclough; Steve Packer; Simon Ellis; Jan Van Ravens; Ulrika Peppler Barry; Nicole Bella; Valerie Djioze; Hilaire Mputu; Carlos Aggio; Mariana Cifuentes-Montoya / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Is the world on track to achieve the millennium target of Education for All (EFA) by 2015? Are the six EFA commitments made in April 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar being met? How can we plug gaps in knowledge about schooli...
- A comprehensive development framework progress report
- World Bank, 2003
- This report reviews the implementation of the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) principles in 48 low-income countries. It generally shows that countries that are making progress in implementing the CDF principles generally per...
- Debt sustainability and the relevance of fiscal policy in Africa
- A. Fedelino; A. Kudina / International Monetary Fund, 2003
- This paper looks at the link between fiscal policy and debt sustainability in a number of African countries participating in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. The paper finds that, on the basis of current fiscal p...
- Malawi's poverty reduction strategy process labelled unsatisfactory by IMF
- M. Nowak; M Hadji; P. Donovan; G. Nankani / International Monetary Fund, 2003
- This paper is based on the first annual review of Malawi's poverty reduction strategy (MPRS). It concludes that the implementation of the MPRSP has been unsatisfactory as actual funds allocated for pro poor activities have been substa...
- IMF and the MDGs
- Oxfam, 2003
- This paper states that the IMF plays a key role in defining how much governments can spend, based on their definition of what countries' stabilised macro-economic policies ought to be. It argues that the fund should now be moving away...
- A new deal for low-income countries: financing development through debt cancellation and aid
- Oxfam, 2003
- This paper sets out the policy actions required by the World Bank, IMF, and bilateral donors if their stated commitment to the fulfilment of the MDGs is to be taken seriously. In committing to finance the MDGs, the donor community has...
- 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
