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Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs
HelpAge International, 2010Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.DocumentThe world’s most deprived: characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007Despite considerable progress in poverty reduction in the past decade, millions of people around the world remain preoccupied solely with survival, and hunger is a reality in their everyday lives. This paper examines the first Millennium Development Goal, the halving of poverty and hunger, and explores the characteristics of those who are likely to be left behind.DocumentThe Millennium Development Goals: progress in Asia and the Pacific 2007
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 20072007 marks the midpoint towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report provides a progress report on the MDGs in Asia and the Pacific and highlights the challenges that remain. The report provides at overall progress in the region as well as highlight disparities within countries.DocumentNamibia on track to meet global poverty goal
The Namibian, 2007According 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.DocumentRoars and whispers: gender and poverty: promises vs. action
Social Watch, 2005This 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.DocumentHuman Development Report 2005: international cooperation at a crossroads - aid, trade and security in an unequal world
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005Will 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.DocumentA quantitative assessment of social exclusion in Pakistan
Oxford Policy Management, 2005This 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.