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Showing posts with label MDGs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MDGs. Show all posts
Thursday, September 16, 2010
UNICEF: Progress for Children Achieving the MDGs with Equity
New UNICEF study shows MDGs for children can be reached faster with focus on most disadvantaged Read more
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish. But today, there are 72 million children in the world who have had at least part of their futures stolen from them. That's because they've been denied a basic education.
The international community promised to provide universal primary education at the 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, where world leaders made commitments to education and our world's most valuable resource -- children. But a decade later the basic human right to education for all is still denied. Despite the countless summits, high-level meetings and high-blown rhetoric, progress toward the United Nations' Education for All goal of universal primary education by 2015 has been disappointing, and as the Global Monitoring Report ominously cites, "We are heading steadfastly for an avoidable failure." Read more
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
64m More People to Live in Extreme Poverty Worldwide
Because of the global financial crisis and ensuring global recession, some 64 million more people will be living in extreme poverty by 2010.
The crisis and recession have substantially increased the challenge of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets, according to the World Development Indicator (WDI) 2010 released by the Bank.
During 2000-2008, low and middle income countries averaged economic growth of 6.2 percent a year, and during 1999-2005 the number of people living on less than 1.25 dollars a day fell by 325 million. Read more
Because of the continuing global recession, some 64 million more people will be living in extreme poverty by 2010, the World Bank said in a report released Tuesday.
Because of the global financial crisis and ensuring global recession, some 64 million more people will be living in extreme poverty by 2010, the World Bank said in a report released on Tuesday.The crisis and recession have substantially increased the challenge of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets, according to the World Development Indicator (WDI) 2010 released by the Bank.
During 2000-2008, low and middle income countries averaged economic growth of 6.2 percent a year, and during 1999-2005 the number of people living on less than 1.25 dollars a day fell by 325 million. Read more
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