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 ...

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 ...

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 2015 – ...

Peter Jackson is Chief Editor of the Yearbook Unit of the UN Department of Public Information, which annually publishes the Yearbook of the United Nations, the most authoritative reference book on the ...

At this century’s start, leaders from every country agreed to pursue the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. The ambition was to improve significantly the lot of the planet’s most ...

21 September 2010 AMMAN (JT) -- His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday said that Jordan has integrated the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into its national strategy of structural reform, sustainable ...