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United Nations Millennium Decleration

 

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Author: United Nations

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UN High Level Event on MDGs: Ban Ki-moon's concluding remarks

The SC of the UN presents fresh contributions and commitments towards the MDGs that could amount to US$ 16 billion. This includes 0 billion for agricultural productivity and 1.6 billion for food security through the "purchase for progress" initiative.

More information is available on: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2008highlevel/index.shtml

 

Source: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2008highlevel/sgstatement.shtml

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Published 2008 by:

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The Rural Sector beyond 2015, January 2006

More than 70 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas. The World Bank’s approach to rural development is holistic and multisectoral, focused on improving the wellbeing of rural people by building their productive, social, and environmental assets. The author of this article explores what this means in the longer term horizon of beyond 2015.

The proposition of this article is that key [...], in fact the foundation, will be sustained economic growth. First, without economic growth, incomes will not increase for anyone, including the poor. Although growth does not guarantee poverty reduction, poverty reduction is impossible without growth. What will fuel this growth? The starting point for many developing countries, given the concentration of poverty in rural areas and the share of agriculture in poor country GDP, must be rural development and growth in agricultural production.

 

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Published 2006 by:

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Author: Kevin Cleaver, in Entwicklung und Ländlicher Raum

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The Millennium Project: A sound strategy for reaching the MDGs?

The Millennium Project Report, Investing in Development, invites developing countries to formulate expenditure plans based on what they will need to do to reach the MDGs. Additional aid needed will be very substantial, even after allowing for re-allocation of current aid flows away from non-MDG related purposes. The report estimates that the additional requirement, over and above current net ODA of some $yt billion p.a., will rise in constant prices from $70 billion in 2006 to $120 billion in 2015.

Is this 'Big Bang' strategy realistic? This note welcomes the prospect of more aid for the world's most important project, points to some problems in getting started and to some pitfalls to avoid, and emphasises the need to sustain momentum in poverty reduction after 2015.

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Timing: many target countries; some not ready Chosen instrument: public expenditure Growth is a prerequisite Making aid effective After 2015?  

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Published 2005 by: Overseas Development Institute

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Author: John Roberts

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The MDGs: Will Asia and the Pacific achieve them?

The Asian Development Bank takes pride in its role in helping its developing member countries—and the entire region—achieve the Millennium Development Goals. But meeting them by 2015 will be a challenge, with many countries potentially falling short of achieving some or all of the targets.

ADB is committed to creating an environment for achieving the MDGs, a shared responsibility of all development stakeholders. This issue of ADB Review highlights MDG issues and provides examples of innovative projects that are eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, strengthening primary education, promoting gender equality, improving health, fighting HIV/AIDS, protecting the environment, and promoting partnership.

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Overview Staying on Track for 2015 Anticorruption A Black and White Issue Nutrition Rice Power Rural development A Time for Change Education Back to Basics Leadership Women Power Women Learn to Lead Health Good Health Begins at Home Fighting ignorance Healing Cambodia’s health care Thirst for Change Fatal Attraction  

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Published 2004 by: Asian Development Bank

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Author: Asian Development Bank

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The MDGs - Challenges for German Development Policy

The summary shows what the consequences of the Millennium Declaration (MD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are for German development policy. The paper underlines core elements of Germany's approach to development policy and lists possible fields of activity, each of which must be discussed further and specified in detail.

The purpose of the summary of the paper is to inform interested persons outside the BMZ and the BMZ's partners worldwide about BMZ policy in this respect.

 

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Published 2003 by: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

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Author: MDG Task Force: Van de Sand

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Promoting Pro-Poor Growth Agriculture

This publication takes a fresh look at the important contribution of agriculture to pro-poor growth. After two decades of decline, investments in agriculture are now on the rise. This major reversal in national policies as well as donor programmes reflects an increased awareness of the vital contribution of agriculture to pro-poor growth and the stark reality that 75% of the world’s poor live in rural areas. A positive process of economic transformation and diversification of both livelihoods and national economies is the key to sustained poverty reduction. Evidence shows that it is agricultural growth, through its leverage effects on the rest of the economy that enables poor countries, poor regions and ultimately poor households to take the first steps toward economic transformation. Agriculture has in many places connected broader economic growth and the rural poor, increasing their productivity and incomes.

This policy guidance for donors considers agriculture’s changing landscape and identifies a new agriculture agenda for enabling pro-poor growth. It recognises new challenges – such as HIV/AIDS, natural resource degradation, global competition, demographic change and migration â …

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Published 2006 by: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

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Author: Network on Poverty Reduction (POVNET), OECD DAC

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Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development, March 2002

Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,18-22 March 2002.

 

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Published 2002 by:

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Author: UN General Assembly

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Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint: Where do we stand and where do we need to go, September 2008

 

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Published 2008 by:

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Author: François Bourguignon, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Stefan Dercon, Antonio Estache, Jan Willem Gunning, Ravi Kanbur, Stephan Klasen, Simon Maxwell, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Amedeo Spadaro

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Millennium Development Goals (ADB)

The Millennium Development Goals unite the international development community around a common, global agenda to reduce poverty.

Dedicated to its vision of an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty, ADB strongly supports the Millennium Development Goals. The MDGs define specific goals and targets with indicators for measuring and monitoring progress toward poverty reduction.

They provide an important basis for ADB's developing member countries to prepare their own poverty reduction strategies, in collaboration with development partners.

They also help align ADB's assistance programs with country-specific needs and priorities.

Discover and understand through this website how ADB assists the MDGs in its developing member countries.

 

Source: http://www.adb.org/mdgs/default.asp

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Published 2005 by: Asian Development Bank

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Author: ADB

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