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  "It is almost half time": will the SADC region achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the target date of 2015?

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007

  This paper summarises the proceedings of a policy dialogue on progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The dialogue brought together representatives of civil society, government and intergovernmental organisations from throughout the region.
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  Current macroeconomic frameworks, challenges and alternatives for the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007

  This paper discusses policies that have inhibited the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regions.
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  Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

  ActionAid International, 2007

  Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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  Namibia on track to meet global poverty goal

  The Namibian, 2007

  According to a recent survey, the 2006 targets for poverty and inequality set out in the Namibian National Development Plan II seem to have been achieved ahead of schedule.
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  Social exclusion and the MDGs: the challenge of durable inequalities in the Asian context

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  Economic growth and poverty reduction have occurred unevenly across, and even within, Asian countries. This paper focuses on the chronic nature of poverty, and explores why social exclusion makes it more difficult for some sections of the poor to take advantage of the opportunities generated by economic growth.
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  Making poverty reduction work: OECD's role in development partnership

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This report highlights the OECD's and its members' contributions to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It highlights the OECD's specific roles in the international effort as an intergovernmental agency and through its collective membership.The paper outlines how the OECD contributes to the global development partnership.
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  Global partnership for development: Thailand's contribution to millennium development goal 8

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  Thailand has become an important emerging donor, trading partner, and provider of foreign direct investment for the benefit its poorer neighbours and those beyond its borders.
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  Roars and whispers: gender and poverty: promises vs. action

  Social Watch, 2005

  This annual Social Watch report monitors the progress of the MDGs and poverty reduction using a gendered approach. Divided into three areas it covers: themed discussions, monitoring progress, and national reports from over 50 countries.The study shows that the international community has largely failed to live up to the commitments it adopted in 2000.
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  Human Development Report 2005: international cooperation at a crossroads - aid, trade and security in an unequal world

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005

  Will the MDG targets be met if current development trends continue? Not according to the 2005 Human Development Report (HDR), which cites inequality as the issue of prime concern in the fight against poverty. The report argues that economic development alone will fail to produce sustained poverty reduction.
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  Mainstreaming poverty reduction strategies within the Millenium Development Goals: the role of public administration

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  The Millenium Development Goals, in particular the goal to reduce global poverty, depend on the effectiveness and efficiency of institutions, especially at the national level. Weak institutions are identified as the key to the failure of poverty reduction strategies.

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