Background. The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the ...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) established a unifying set of developmental objectives for the global community. Bringing together United Nations agencies, governments and civil society ...

The Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, set an ambitious agenda to cut extreme poverty while also pursuing improved access to education, health services, and safe drinking water.

Yet with only 500 days until the end of the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, criticism remains that many countries will be unable to reach what can be considered arbitrary global targets.

Excessive focus on the Millennium Development Goals risks undermining the long-term investment required for building scientific capacity. We are now two-thirds of the way through the task that members ...

Q1: What are the Millennium Development Goals? A1: To mark the arrival of a new century, then–Secretary-General Kofi Annan convened a summit of the United Nation’s member states in September 2000 to ...

In September 2000, the United Nations approved the Millennium Declaration. It set the stage for the Millennium Development Goals, which are due to be achieved in 2015. But have the MDGs brought ...

A new study suggests that the United Nations' much-lauded Millennium Development Goals, which expire in the year 2015, did not accelerate developmental progress globally after they were announced ...

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) From donors to partners. As we move on to middle-income status and depend more on our own financial resources, ...