Thirteen years after the world set the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), countries have made big strides to meet the eight anti-poverty targets by their 2015 deadline. “In more than a decade of ...

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which galvanized the world to produce the most successful anti-poverty movement in history, helped lift more than one billion people out of ...

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Earlier this week, a group of journalists met with UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General Jeffrey Sachs, and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on ...

Ten years ago, world leaders developed a blueprint for improving the social and economic situation in the world's poorest countries. To ensure progress, United Nations member states agreed to adopt a ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. From 1981 to 1999, extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa rose from 52 percent of ...

Delegates at the on-going UN South-South conference have warned that many developing countries — including Kenya — may not achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) due to rising food insecurity, ...

With two weeks left to go until the EU Summit in June, where European Heads of State will endorse the EU position for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) ahead of the UN High Level meeting in ...

This paper outlines key recommendations on each of the eight MDGs that we strongly believe the U.S. Government should include in its promised plan. Make sure your gift to Oxfam America goes directly ...

There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...