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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 … action is needed to help the world get back on track to achieve the MDGs; and urgent action is also needed to combat climate …
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Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries continue their considerable past achievements. The Millennium Development Goals-which were to have been met by 2015-helped focus attention on achieving progress...
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world is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation laid at the conference in Bali in …
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. Yet the world is still far from achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reviews the efforts under way to …
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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 …, reproductive health, and environment. Each of the seven goals addresses an aspect of poverty. The paper also emphasizes that these …
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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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World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It provides a development perspective on the global economic crisis and …
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The year 2005 marks an important juncture for development as the international community takes stock of implementation of the Millennium Declaration—signed by 189 countries in 2000—and discusses how progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be accelerated. The MDGs set...
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What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? How many people will the crisis prevent from escaping poverty, and how many will remain hungry? How many more infants will die? Are children being pulled out of schools, not getting the education they need to become more productive adults and...
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