Q: How poor is the world? A: We dont really know
As world leaders meet in New York to discuss progress on the United Nations anti-poverty and development goals, one thing is conspicuously absent. Up-to-date poverty figures. The most recent are five years old. So how on earth will we know in 2015 - the de
VLOG: Cirrus Energy Services chips in to help achieve MDG 6
Gift From Africa, a new fund launched to tackle HIV/AIDS, Malaria, tuberculosis, should help make progress toward achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, collaborators say.
VLOG: Access Bank enters race to help meet MDGs
Gift From Africa, a new fund launched to tackle HIV/AIDS, Malaria and tuberculosis, should help make progress toward achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, collaborators say.
Samuel Kargbo on meeting MDGs in post-war Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone health department official Samuel Kargbo spoke on a panel with African Health experts on the sidelines of the Millennium Development Goals Summit at the U.N. Week Digital Media Lounge.
VLOG: Huguette Labelle on transparency and the MDGs
Huguette Labelle, chair of global organisation Transparency International, speaks with AlertNet about the Millennium Development Goals.
VLOG: UNICEFs Juliana Yartey deconstructs MDG 5
Among eight Millennium Development Goals drawn up by the U.N. in 2000 to be achieved by 2015, is "MDG 5" which targets maternal mortality.
VLOG: Oxfams Irungu Houghton assesses MDGs
Oxfam's Irungu Houghton spoke with AlertNet at a rally against poverty at Lincoln Center in New York ahead of the Millennium Goals Summit at the United Nations
VLOG: Oxfams Gregory Elias Adams on the U.N. MDG Summit
Oxfam's Gregory Elias Adams spoke with AlertNet at the "Stand Up and Take Action Against Poverty and Inequality" rally in New York about the Millennium Development Goals.
Direct access to the Adaptation Fund moving forward
2010 may become a historic year in international finance policy, and the Adaptation Fund set up under the Kyoto Protocol may be the most important milestone. For the first time in the history of climate policy, developing countries can access an internatio
Corruption concerns go beyond ethics and economics
Andrew Spalding is a faculty member at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and a former Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in India. His research focuses on the impact of anti-corruption laws on developing countries.