You have heard me say it on more than one occasion that the world’s problems are all primarily economic in nature. Economics is about how we allocate our scarce resources among competing ends. If ...

A recent report analyzed the reasons why family planning has lost policy visibility, globally, and funding support on the basis of interviews with informants from developed and low-resource nations.

ENDING poverty IN OUR GENERATION Save the Children’s vision for a post-2015 framework A historic achievement is within reach. We can be the generation that ends poverty, forever. For the first time, ...

Today’s announcement by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that aid to developing countries has fallen by nearly 3 percent ...

New analysis published today shows that 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have accelerated progress in the last three years on reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and 16 are on track to ...

I like to take this first public opportunity to express my deep gratitude to the Secretary-General for his confidence in me and I hope to be able to fulfil that trust. Although green and fertile, ...

In this issue, we focus on MDG 8 as the foundational goal, creating the conditions for achieving MDGs 1 to 7. While developing countries are called upon to improve governance to ensure that ...

June 26, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) – A new Research released this week reveled that Ethiopia is one of the leading 20 countries making most Progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The ...

In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...

THE UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations member states in September 2015 at the UN General Assembly to provide a universal framework for development for the ...

With Malala Yousafzai by his side, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today marked 500 days of action until the deadline to reach the Millennium Development Goals, known worldwide as the MDGs. Action now ...