World leaders met at the United Nations this week to take stock of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed a decade ago on tackling global poverty. The eight goals are meant to be achieved by 2015.
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Here is is a selection of stories about the MDGs
ALERTNET INSIGHT
- Humanitarian emergency appeal system is "dysfunctional", says Sachs
- Nita Bhalla
- Corruption denies right to life, says anti-graft body chief
- Luke Balleny
- Toilets are key to good education - aid agencies
- Emma Batha
- INTERVIEW: Funding cuts threaten global targets on HIV/AIDS
- Thin Lei Win
- Cash benefits with strings cut poverty in Latin America
- Anastasia Moloney
- FACTBOX-Latin America&${esc.hash}39;s cash transfer schemes
- Anastasia Moloney
- MDGs can help ease crises - if pursued the right way
- Olesya Dmitracova
- Corruption hampers progress on MDGs
- Megan Rowling
- Hunger costing poor countries ${esc.dollar}450 billion a year
- Emma Batha
- Bad governance stops Africa cutting child mortality
- George Fominyen
- Ghana shows Africa nations can meet MDGs
- George Fominyen
- GRAPHIC-Ghana&${esc.hash}39;s progress on the MDGs?
- Safe toilets key to reaching MDGs but progress slow
- Olesya Dmitracova
- GRAPHIC-World off track on cutting child and maternal deaths?
- GRAPHIC-Kenya&${esc.hash}39;s Millennium Village?
VIDEO
- INTERVIEW: Immunising the world&${esc.hash}39;s poorest children - Dan Thomas/Gavi Alliance
- MDG SOUNDBITE: Barbara Stocking, Oxfam UK chief executive
- MDG SOUNDBITE: Phil Vernon, International Alert
REUTERS NEWS
- Obama declares new aid policy
- UN unveils ${esc.dollar}40 bln women&${esc.hash}39;s and child health planUN
- UN: Rich must not cut aid to poor to balance budget
- Rich donors urge rethink of aid at UN poverty meet
- Education in poor countries hurt by financial crisis
- IN QUOTES - World leaders review U.N poverty goals
- INTERVIEW - UN chief defends poverty draft from critics
- Economic growth key to UN poverty goals, says IMF
- Child death rate down by a third since 1990
- Vaccine drives face multibillion funding shortfalls
- FACTBOX - Key findings of UNICEF study on child mortality
- FACTBOX - Progress in the MDGs
BLOGS
- Q: How poor is the world? A: We don&${esc.hash}39;t really know?
- Emma Batha
- Is climate change the missing link in the MDGs?
- Megan Rowling
- What have the MDGs ever done for us?
- Katie Nguyen
- Fight poverty? Help countries build own capacity
- Porter McConnell, Oxfam
- Beating hunger in Africa in face of climate change
- Lindiwe Sibanda, FANRPAN
AID AGENCIES VIEWS
- MDG ambition "lost in translation"
- Christian Aid
- Failure to focus on poorest has led to miliions of child deaths
- Save the Children
- Halving hunger still possible but only with sufficient political will
- Oxfam
- UN summit urged to seek justice for poor
- Caritas
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