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 ...

The Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, set an ambitious agenda to cut extreme poverty while also pursuing improved access to education, health services, and safe drinking water. One thousand ...

Today’s post explores debates over the Millennium Development Goals, their track record, and their future. With 2015 rapidly approaching, governments, NGOs, and multilateral organizations are ...

For more than a decade, the Millennium Development Goals -- a set of time-bound targets agreed on by heads of state in 2000 -- have unified, galvanized, and expanded efforts to help the world's ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization reports the world is less poor and healthier now than it was 15 years ago when the United Nations launched the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium ...

Discussions have already begun on what should replace them, with some criticising the current goals as being unrealistic. The eight United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs ...

A great deal of noise is currently being generated about development issues, piggy-backing on the 10th anniversary of the Millennium Declaration and targeting the Millennium Development Goals ...

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 ...

The U.N. adopted the SDGs in 2015 as the successor to the expiring Millennium Development Goals. The MDGs, adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2000, had eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators ...

The actions made in 2015 are expected to result in new sustainable development goals to follow the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The UN is working with governments, civil society and ...

News, comment and features on the millennium development goals, or MDGs: the global attempt to address extreme poverty in 2000-15. They have been superseded by the sustainable development goals ...