As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders ...

Since their adoption more than 13 years ago, significant and substantial progress has been made in meeting many of the eight Millennium Development Goals, including visible improvements in all health ...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a framework for measuring the progress of nations. Several of these goals relate to child malnutrition, which remains an important contributor to child ...

This fact sheet [1] highlights the progress of rural women against key Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators, pointing to some of the advancements made and gaps that still exist.

Is the world on track to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG)? The answer to this question will be crucial in evaluating the ambitious project the UN launched in September 2000.

I recently attended a roundtable discussion hosted by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) on Growth, Equity and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). The room was full of participants from ...

In 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals. And the UN Conference Habitat III to be held in October 2016 is meant to agree on “the new urban ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Getting the facts straight on how to make the world a better place. In the year 2000, something remarkable happened: the world came ...

Fifteen years later, how have the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - universal primary education, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, improving maternal health, reducing child ...

The discussions outlined eight "Millennium Development Goals" (MDG) to be achieved by 2015. Driven by growing concerns for the planet's sustainability and the serious problems affecting humankind, the ...