Yet with only 500 days until the end of the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, criticism remains that many countries will be unable to reach what can be considered arbitrary global targets.

John Podesta, Chair of the Center for American Progress, delivers remarks on the Millenium Development Goals at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C., Friday, April 5, 2013.

The millennium development goals are eight aspirational targets set by the United Nations (UN) in New York in September 2000, explain Dr Mark Beattie and colleagues.

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What the world has learned is that setting goals works. There may be no exact science to explain the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the UN in 2000.

The Millennium Development Goals have always recognized the need for a global partnership to end poverty, and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.N. agencies have been persistent in their ...

The official 2012 UN report on the Millennium Development Goals reports that net aid in 2011 fell in real terms from 2010, though.

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But when the United Nations formed its Millennium Development Goals in 2000, it devoted one goal– Goal 3 –specifically to gender equality and female empowerment in the developing world, but ...

A3: The Millennium Development Goals are only five years away from their deadline. Given the slow progress toward achieving the goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called a summit of the UN ...

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are in many ways the Cinderella of international development. When 160 world leaders met at the United Nations in September 2000, they were inspired ...