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

The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the United Nations’ chief initiative for advancing basic living standards and addressing a ...

The MDGs, adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2000, had eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators that were primarily aligned with pre-existing development objectives like improving primary ...

Launched in September 2015 by the United Nations (UN) Summit in New York, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a 15-year plan grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights aimed ...

Instead, the United Nations and world leaders came up with a hodge-podge, absurdly long list of 169 targets for the world to achieve from 2015-2030: the Sustainable Development Goals.

Alexander Puutio and other global development experts and leaders on how the sector can chart a path forward in the face of government pullbacks. Since the establishment of the first modern ...

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