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  Can extreme poverty be eliminated?

  Scientific American, 2005

  In this article, Jeffery Sachs offers a number of solutions to the problem of chronic poverty. The paper details the current state of global poverty and then argues that the answer lies in science, technology and the reinforcing accumulation of weath.
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  Voices of the least developed countries of Asia and the Pacific: achieving the millennium development goals through a global partnership

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  This report reviews progress towards the MDGs within the 14 least developed countries (LDCs) of Asia and the Pacific. The 14 countries are Afghanistan, Lao PDR, Solomon Islands, Bangladesh, Maldives, Timor-Leste, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tuvalu, Cambodia, Nepal, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Samoa. It argues that the dynamism of Asia represents both a challenge and an opportunity.
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  Advance social watch report 2005: unkept promises

  Social Watch, 2005

  This paper reports on the findings of the national Social Watch coalitions in over 60 countries. The analysis of the available indicators coincide: the promises have remained largely unmet. Unless substantial changes are put in place soon, the MDG targets set for the year 2015 will not be achieved.
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  Structural injustice and the MDGs: a critical analysis of the Zambian experience

  Trocaire, 2005

  This paper critically examines reasons as to why the MDGs are not likely to be met in Zambia by 2015.
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  A quantitative assessment of social exclusion in Pakistan

  Oxford Policy Management, 2005

  This briefing note aims to quantify the relationship between social exclusion and poverty in Pakistan. It offers a quantitative description and analysis of social exclusion in Pakistan through a literature review of all forms of exclusion and the analysis of datasets with information on socially excluded groups.
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  Ambition is golden: meeting the MDGs

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  This paper considers different views about the MDGs, and considers whether they are an agreed agenda, a minimalistic agenda or an incomplete agenda for human development. The author suggests that the slow start towards meeting the MDGs in the 1990s can be overcome, and that the MDGs can still be achieved by 2015, if not met solely with pessimism, scepticism and cynicism.
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  Achievements, gaps and challenges in linking the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals: report of the expert group meeting

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  This paper reports on a meeting of experts held in Baku, Azerbaijan 7 - 10 February 2005, to discuss the the implementation of both the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals. The paper's main focus is on how to link the two development documents, ensuring that progress on the objectives of each documents bears in mind the responsibilities incurred by the other.
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  Agriculture, food security, nutrition and the millennium development goals

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the importance of agriculture, food security and nutrition within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
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  Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Project, 2005

  Investing in development is the final report of the UN Millennium Project. It presents the findings and recommendations of the project, which will be reported directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Administrator of the UNDP.The report makes ten key recommendations:developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the MDG targets for 2015.
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  Innovation: applying knowledge in development

  Millennium Project, 2005

  This report describes approaches for effectively applying science, technology, and innovation to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

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