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World Development, 2004
The United Nations and other aid agencies are calling for aid to be more than doubled so that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be achieved by 2015. Unfortunately, as this paper shows, many important donors currently distribute their aid in ways that are not consistent with the MDGs.
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The United Nations and other aid agencies are calling for aid to be more than doubled so that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be achieved by 2015. Unfortunately, as this paper shows, many important donors currently distribute their aid in ways that are not consistent with the MDGs.
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Formally Linking MDG and HOL Based on a Verified MDG System
2002We describe an approach for formally linking a symbolic state enumeration system and a theorem proving system based on a verified version of the former. It has been realized using a simplified version of the MDG system and the HOL system. Firstly, we have verified aspects of correctness of a simplified version of the MDG system.
Haiyan Xiong +3 more
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2009
‘Development’ has come to mean the MDGs for many — policy-makers in particular. In this chapter we look at the evolution of the meaning of development and its relationship with the MDGs.1 We draw on recent conceptual discussions regarding the evolving notion of ‘well-being’ (as opposed to poverty, deprivation and ‘ill-being’) and ask what it adds and ...
Andy Sumner, Meera Tiwari
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‘Development’ has come to mean the MDGs for many — policy-makers in particular. In this chapter we look at the evolution of the meaning of development and its relationship with the MDGs.1 We draw on recent conceptual discussions regarding the evolving notion of ‘well-being’ (as opposed to poverty, deprivation and ‘ill-being’) and ask what it adds and ...
Andy Sumner, Meera Tiwari
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, 2007 Measuring Equitable MDG Progress
The European Journal of Development Research, 2014How do we identify and highlight countries achieving equitable Millennium Development Goal (MDG) progress? The answer lies in how we measure MDG progress. The current approach focuses solely on scale. Most policymakers have focused on the size, rather than the shape of change.
Milo Vandemoortele +2 more
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Integrating MDG variable ordering in a VHDL-MDG design verification system
2001Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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Development, 2005
Carol Barton reflects on the concerns of women's movements about the millennium development goals (MDGs). She argues that the MDGs can potentially be used as an instrument to advance a global feminist agenda to the extent that feminist organizations define the terms of the debate.
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Carol Barton reflects on the concerns of women's movements about the millennium development goals (MDGs). She argues that the MDGs can potentially be used as an instrument to advance a global feminist agenda to the extent that feminist organizations define the terms of the debate.
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2014
The only infrastructure sectors formally covered by the MDGs are W&S and the access to phone services. With respect to access to phone services, the progress in terms of fixed telephone lines has been slow between 1990 and 2011, with only nine countries registering significant increases in their numbers.
Antonio Estache, Quentin Wodon
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The only infrastructure sectors formally covered by the MDGs are W&S and the access to phone services. With respect to access to phone services, the progress in terms of fixed telephone lines has been slow between 1990 and 2011, with only nine countries registering significant increases in their numbers.
Antonio Estache, Quentin Wodon
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UN Chronicle, 2007
In 2000, the international community endorsed the Millennium Declaration, which sets out an historic commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and improve the health of the world’s poorest people by 2015. The Declaration and the resulting internationally agreed targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) place health squarely at the centre of the
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In 2000, the international community endorsed the Millennium Declaration, which sets out an historic commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and improve the health of the world’s poorest people by 2015. The Declaration and the resulting internationally agreed targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) place health squarely at the centre of the
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Development, 2005
Despite the skepticism and questioning of many civil society groups about the millennium development goals (MDGs), Bharati Sadasivam argues that the conversation on the MDGs has the potential to be one of the most rewarding interactions between the UN and civil society, provided both sides rise to the challenge they pose to each other.
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Despite the skepticism and questioning of many civil society groups about the millennium development goals (MDGs), Bharati Sadasivam argues that the conversation on the MDGs has the potential to be one of the most rewarding interactions between the UN and civil society, provided both sides rise to the challenge they pose to each other.
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