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As the 2015 deadline for the millennium development goals (MDGs) draws near, there is an urgent need for inclusive global consultations to draw up a successor agreement. With only four years left to ...

Fifteen years ago the world united around a common agenda to tackle poverty. This agenda is what we know as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); it committed global leadership to a new partnership ...

The Philippines should join the UK and Japan in calling for a more focused development agenda. Otherwise, we may not able to prioritize actions to ensure that 'no one is left behind.' This September, ...

Elizabeth Lwanga is Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Coordinator of UN System Operational Activities in Kenya. She has served as Deputy Director of the Regional ...

Few indicators have been as lauded, or as reviled, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Almost from the moment the eight international objectives, complete with 21 targets, were established in ...

This working paper sets out a framework to scale up locally-driven solutions to ecosystem decline, climate change and poverty. To attain the MDGs, rural development strategies will have to adjust.

The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. This year, the United Nations released a new set of development goals ...

The countdown to the last 1,000 days to the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has begun. On April 5, the world marked the beginning of the critical last mile of the MDGs.