The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up for an innovative new programme in Zimbabwe that will enable poor farming households to improve food ...

Today, fewer people go hungry. There are more children attending school. Fewer and fewer people are dying unnecessarily from easily preventable and treatable diseases. Yet with only 500 days until the ...

Because the Millenium Development Goals fail to include the goal of improving the mental health of the poor, the world may not reach many of the goals, say researchers in an analysis published today ...

The United Nations has ignored the role of inter-generational influences on health while setting ambitious targets for its millennium development goals to reduce hunger and child mortality, according ...

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 ...

Bonn, Germany, 24th May 2008—Well-managed wildlife trade has the potential to deliver significant development benefits for the world’s poor, finds a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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This paper examines whether Chinese development finance is associated with faster progress toward Millennium Development Goal style targets in low- and middle-income countries. We combine AidData’s ...

Voices of Youth: Find out if your country is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, learn how you can take action, and join a discussion. Cyberschoolbus: See examples of successful ...

In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the Millennium Declaration, which evolved into an ambitious set of concrete targets called the Millennium Development Goals, to be achieved by the end of ...