There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...

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 target date of 2015 – ...

As world leaders gather in New York this week to discuss the future of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, critics are warning that many of the targets cannot be evaluated scientifically ...

Doctor Susan Lieberman, Director of WWF's Species Programme, looks at the way forward to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, increase sustainable development and benefit species conservation.

The Acting Chair: I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Ali Jarbawi, Minister for Planning and Administrative Development of the Palestinian Authority. Mr. Jarbawi (Palestine): In paragraph 2 of ...

At this century’s start, leaders from every country agreed to pursue the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. The ambition was to improve significantly the lot of the planet’s most ...