As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last ...

You have heard me say it on more than one occasion that the world’s problems are all primarily economic in nature. Economics is about how we allocate our scarce resources among competing ends. If ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most ...

With two weeks left to go until the EU Summit in June, where European Heads of State will endorse the EU position for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) ahead of the UN High Level meeting in ...

Ten years after the United Nations general assembly adopted the Millennium Development Goals, “the fulfillment of these goals are under serious threat”, Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations ...

This week, world leaders will meet in New York for the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, marking the halfway point for the sprawling, ambitious 15-year global-development agenda set in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Getting the facts straight on how to make the world a better place. In the year 2000, something remarkable happened: the world ...

RIYADH, 27 November 2006 -- Prince Faisal Bin Salman, chairman of the board of the Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG), will inaugurate today a two-day seminar on Saudi media's role in the ...

THE UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations member states in September 2015 at the UN General Assembly to provide a universal framework for development for the ...

President John Dramani Mahama has emphasised that gender equality is not only a matter of fairness but a driving force for ...

Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 now available This report is based on a master set of data that has been compiled by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department ...