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One decade remains to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that the international community set out in 2000 …. Yet the world is still far from achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reviews the efforts under way to … globally. The report highlights six key actions to accelerate progress toward the MDGs and strengthen mutual accountability …
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Monterrey Consensus have created a powerful global compact for … crucial year to build momentum. The MDGs set clear targets for eradicating poverty and related human deprivations, and for …
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The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium Declaration - signed by 189 countries in September 2000 - led to the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals, which set clear targets for eradicating poverty and other sources...
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the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). …
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What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? This year’s Global Monitoring Report, The MDGs after the Crisis … Goals (MDGs). Developing countries will also need to implement significant policy reforms and strengthen institutions to …
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This paper reviews economic developments in Barbados during the 1990s. Economic activity declined during 1990-92 but began to recover in 1993. The recovery started slowly in 1993, but picked up in 1994, and real GDP grew by 3.8 percent in that year. Adverse weather in 1994 led to a drop in sugar...
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Development Goals (MDGs) can be accelerated. The MDGs set clear targets for reducing poverty and other human deprivations and for … the MDGs and related development outcomes, has a special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa—the region that is farthest from the … accelerate progress, the MDGs will be seriously jeopardized—especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is falling short on all the …
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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also an important year to work toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond … 2007. The report spans this agenda. It provides a comprehensive assessment of progress toward the MDGs and related policies … for development. The report's assessment of MDGs at midpoint presents a mixed picture, one of both significant progress …
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This paper focuses on goal setting for development of the world. The paper highlights that the goals come from the agreements and resolutions of the world conferences organized by the United Nations in the first half of the 1990s. The paper focuses on seven goals that cover poverty, education,...
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