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Most of the world’s children now live in countries on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary completion by 2015. Countries have indeed made great progress getting kids in school, but behind that progress is a problem: many children are hardly learning anything in school. Some measures of learning are just dismal. In India, for example, only about one-third of children in grade 5 can perform long division. Nearly one-half cannot read a grade 2 text, and one in five cannot follow a grade 1 text.
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Challenges remain for world's poorest countries despite poverty alleviation under 2015 targets, says UN undersecretary general. International support is critical for the world's poorest countries to make progress on the millennium development goals (MDGs), said a UN representative on Thursday, 1,000 days before the MDG target date.
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The U.N. Millennium Development Goals crept into Obama's State of the Union address.
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A fifth of young people in developing countries fail to complete basic primary education, and progress has stalled since 2010. A drive to get more children into school in the developing world is grinding to a halt as aid for education stagnates, amid fears that this will fall faster than overall aid levels. The education for all (EFA) global monitoring report, Putting education to work, said that on current trends, the millennium development goal (MDG) of universal primary education by 2015 will be missed by a large margin.
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The Millennium Development Goals may not be perfect but they are simple and straightforward - qualities diplomats and others fear could be lost in the process of crafting new targets to replace the MDGs, which expire in 2015.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon underscored this on Tuesday in remarks to members of a high-level panel charged with working out what comes next. “We need a clear post-2015 development agenda - an agenda with shared responsibilities for all countries, with the fight against poverty at the fore and sustainable development at the core,” he said.
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Als ontwikkelingslanden in 2015 de millenniumdoelen niet halen, is dat te wijten aan westerse donoren die hun financiële beloften niet nakomen. Dat blijkt uit een openhartig VN-rapport.
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Girls have reached parity with boys in primary school enrolment in another development milestone, the UN reported this week in its latest snapshot of progress towards the eight milliennium development goals (MDGs) by 2015.
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are widely cited as the primary yardstick against which advances in international development efforts are to be judged. At the same time, the Goals will be met or missed by 2015. It is not too early to start asking what's next?
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This paper presents a critical literature review on the subject of international aid for education and the associated global education discourse that is marked by various international frameworks on Universal Primary Education ...
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De Belgische onderzoeker Jan Vandemoortele was een van de architecten van de Millenniumdoelstellingen. Hij werkte dertig jaar voor de Verenigde Naties, zowel op het hoofdkwartier als in het veld.
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A poll in which 200,000 people chose six life-changing priorities offers post-2015 planners vital input – not least on governance
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For more than a decade, the global conversation about development has been dominated by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Established at the United Nations’ Millennium Summit of 2000, these eight objectives focused on what the international community could do to meet basic human needs in the developing world.
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One thing we emphasized in the Karver/Kenny/Sumner paper on MDGs 2.0 was that the MDGs are far better remembered, and have been far more influential, than the rest of the Millennium Declaration from which they were drawn. We suggested that was because the MDGs were easy to understand, self-evidently important, numerical and time bound, and we called for any follow up goals to keep those vital features. That point seems to be widely agreed, and discussion over numbers in the post-2015 period is getting more specific.
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New report from UN's telecommunications agency breaks down international internet usage statistics.About one-third of the world's population now has access to the internet, but more needs to be done in order to achieve internet penetration targets as set out in the Millennium Development Goals, the International Telecommunications Union has said in a new report.
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Over the years, hundreds of declarations have been issued as part of global summits seeking to eliminate the scourge of extreme poverty. In the latest round, delegates at Rio+20 in Brazil proclaimed: ‘Eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge facing the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.’
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Uit een jaarlijkse tussenstand van de millenniumdoelstellingen blijkt dat de deadline van 2015 gehaald wordt voor armoede, sloppenwijken en drinkwater. Vooral moedersterfte blijft een pijnpunt.
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Twenty years on from the 1992 Rio Earth summit, review the evidence on a range of factors including population, life expectancy, child mortality, ecological footprint, poverty, hunger, food production, GDP, social change, life satisfaction, battle deaths and biodiversity, then decide for yourself whether the world is getting better or worse.
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