Millennium Villages Project

Nigeria's Ambitious Effort to End Poverty

Amina Az-Zubair | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Nigeria, Poverty Nigeria, Global Poverty, U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Millennium Villages, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages Project, World News
Amina Az-Zubair

It's hard for those of us who work day in and day out, on the ground to fight poverty to see such flippancy and carelessness in the media. This is especially true in this case, where the facts are so easy to ascertain.

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Challenges at the Cutting Edge of Fighting Global Poverty

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Millennium Villages Project, Global Health, Global Poverty, Millennium Development Goals, Globalization Health, Globalization Poverty, Global Public Health, Global Agriculture, Global Infrastructure Development, World News
Jeffrey Sachs

A dozen clusters of villages around Africa have adopted bold and novel strategies to overcome poverty, hunger, and disease.

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Rigorous Impact Evaluation Is Not a Luxury: Scrutinizing the Millennium Villages

Michael Clemens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Millennium Villages Project, Foreign Aid, Millennium Villages, Kenya, United Nations, Cell Phones, Columbia University, World Bank, Africa, World News
Michael Clemens

Africans have urgent needs, but they have urgent needs for things that work, and many of them have been disappointed by well-intended outsiders in the past.

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Low-Cost Thrills in Millennium Village Data

John W. McArthur | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Millennium Promise, G8 Summit, Malawi, United Nations, Malaria, Millennium Villages Project, Sustainable Development, Green Revolution, g20, G20 Summit, Mdgs, Sub-Saharan Africa, Millennium Development Goals, G8, Millennium Villages, Safe Drinking Water, Earth Institute, Global Poverty, Fighting Malaria, Poverty Alleviation, MDG Summit, Impact News
John W. McArthur

Yesterday, May 30, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Mwandama, Malawi. While there he ...

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Breakthrough Village Results for Integrated Rural Needs

John W. McArthur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Compact, G8, Mdgs, Poverty, Malawi, Poverty Alleviation, United Nations, Malaria, Community-Based Development, Millennium Villages Project, Mali, Millennium Development Goals, g20, Millennium Villages, Extreme Poverty, Sauri, Community Health Workers, Kenya, Impact News
John W. McArthur

This week the New York Times profiled the early results of the Millennium Villages in Sauri, Kenya. The article by Jeffrey Gettleman highlights the co...

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Time to Invest....In the Poor

Josh Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rwanda, Land Titles, Poverty, Investment, Food Crisis, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages Project, Food, Food Prices, Local Farmers, World News
Josh Ruxin

At a time when the stock market is providing dizzyingly negative returns, it may be time to look at the conservative but positive returns that can be had by investing in subsistence-level farmers.

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