Tag: Millennium Development Goals
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As global poverty lessens and aid increases: Did famed UN development goals matter?
Christian Science Monitor: As global poverty lessens and aid increases: Did famed UN development goals matter? Days before Sept. 11, 2001, a set of eight 'Millennium Development Goals' were declared to improve health, education, and welfare across the planet. As the goals expire on 2015, a sympathetic look at how they fared. … … The…
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Is It Crazy to Think We Can Eradicate Poverty?
New York Times: Is It Crazy to Think We Can Eradicate Poverty? … Fortunately, this deadly and cyclical form of poverty [living on less than $1.25 a day] is already on its way toward obsolescence, and much faster than many development economists expected. The first Millennium Development Goal — to halve the proportion of the…
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The Tragedy of the Millennium Development Goals
Aid Watch: The Tragedy of the Millennium Development Goals Let’s face it: it’s over. The MDGs will not be met (the above statement was based on trends BEFORE the economic crisis hit, see crisis discussion below). What went wrong? The UN was very successful in getting lots of people interested in global poverty who had…
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A campaign to promote good news for Africa
ReliefWeb: A campaign to promote good news for Africa The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is not alone when it comes to expressing concern that media coverage of Africa focuses on war, famine and poverty almost to the exclusion of everything else. We wanted to check our assumptions and assess…
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Spud we like
The Economist: Spud we like In praise of the humble but world-changing tuber. IT IS the world's fourth-most-important food crop, after maize, wheat and rice. It provides more calories, more quickly, using less land and in a wider range of climates than any other plant. It is, of course, the potato. The United Nations has…