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    MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets and Timeframe?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are widely cited as the primary yardstick against which advances in international development efforts are to be judged. At the same time, the Goals will be met or missed by 2015. It is not too early to start asking what's next?
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    Recurrent cost boom threathens Millennium Development Goals

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2010
    At the September 2010 UN summit on the Millennium Development Goals the Secretary-General stressed that tremendous progress in school enrolment, disease control and access to clean water had been achieved. This policy brief addresses a question that he did not talk about. How shall the achievements in relation to the goals be sustained beyond January 1, 2016?
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    Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
    Achieving the Millennium Development Goals will need accelerated interventions in key areas. This Brief illustrates how social protection programmes can help to accelerate progress to the MDGs by facilitating access to essential services and decent living standards.
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    After 2015: progress and challenges for development

    Overseas Development Institute, 2011
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have set the benchmark for global development policy since 2000. In 2015 the current set of MDG targets will expire, and although much progress will have been made, many targets will not have been met. What is the most effective way to take the MDG agenda forward after 2015? There are a range of options being proposed.
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    Global Report on MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health

    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.
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    Children and the Millennium Development Goals: Fragile Gains and Deep Inequalities

    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 regards to achieving the MDS, the emerging picture is one of fragile gains and with deep, continuing, inequalities.
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    Progress Towards the MDGs? Fragile Gains and Deep Inequalities

    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 Vietnam to learn about their education, well-being and experiences of poverty and uncertainty.
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    Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: A Measure of Progress

    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 adoption of the MDGs. We correct for two biases ignored in previous methodologies: non-linearity in the rate of change, and effort appreciation.
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    Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh and Information and Communication Technology

    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 quality education to the deprived and the underprivileged, for improving health services including reduction of child mortality as well as neonatal death.
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    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.

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