Bonn, Germany, 24th May 2008—Well-managed wildlife trade has the potential to deliver significant development benefits for the world’s poor, finds a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade ...

Voices of Youth: Find out if your country is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, learn how you can take action, and join a discussion. Cyberschoolbus: See examples of successful ...

Vietnam has become a world-leading example in achieving millennium development goals, particularly in poverty reduction and ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up for an innovative new programme in Zimbabwe that will enable poor farming households to improve food ...

BOSTON — In April 2007, the General Assembly of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations convened to discuss progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the Millennium Declaration, which evolved into an ambitious set of concrete targets called the Millennium Development Goals, to be achieved by the end of ...

This essay uses established United Nations treaties and agreements on human “development” and progress, that were part of the post World War II consensus, as a basis for rediscovering and reaffirming ...

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 ...

Today, fewer people go hungry. There are more children attending school. Fewer and fewer people are dying unnecessarily from easily preventable and treatable diseases. Yet with only 500 days until the ...

Health care across the world is currently administered largely by the governments of individual countries. The global responsibility for health was acknowledged in 1948 by the formation of the WHO, ...

The target date for fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is 2015, and the world knows it is not on course to meet those goals. So world leaders are set to gather at the United Nations to ...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as they stand today, will allow whole populations of indigenous people to disappear, warn the authors of a paper in The Lancet's series on indigenous health, ...