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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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2011 Is the Year for Female Economic Empowerment

Marylouise Oates | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Women for Women International, U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Women's Rights, Clinton Global Initiative, G-20 Summit, La Pietra Coalition, White Ribbon Alliance, World News
Marylouise Oates

Over and over, participants agreed that "this is the time for financial inclusion for women." And they have some expert advice from within their ranks on how to pull this off.

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The Most Important Thing We Can Do To Save Millions Of Lives

Bill Gates | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Foreign Aid, Mdgs, G20 Summit, Bill Gates, g20, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Gates Notes, Health, Home News
Bill Gates

If the world comes together on a plan for financing development, the impact on health and development will be enormous.

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The Global Fund Won't Stand For Any Corruption

Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Aids, The Global Fund, (RED), Global Fund Corruption, Philanthropy, Global Fund, Impact News
Michel D. Kazatchkine

Yesterday's media reports drew attention to the fact that sums of money are sometimes misappropriated, but what these reports also convey is that the Global Fund has no tolerance of corruption.

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Can Women and Technology Save the UN Development Goals?

Daniel Hernandez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Undp, Womens Rights, Mdgs, Ban Ki-Moon, Africa, United Nations, Michele Bachelet, Development, Un, Womens Empowerment, Feminism, MDG Summit, Jeffrey Sachs, Selim Jahan, World News
Daniel Hernandez

We're behind on our 15-year goal to reduce world poverty by half by 2015, yes. But breakthrough technologies and a focus on women's empowerment may allow us to catch up and save lives as never before.

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The 3Ds: Defense(devleopment)Diplomacy

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Millenium Development Goal, Aidwatch, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama, Barack Obama, Digital-Media-Lounge, Alanna Shaikh, Mdgs, Mashable, Tim Wirth, Usaid Policy, Un, Rajiv Shah, Usaid, MDG Summit, Impact News
Tom Murphy

The message of the new U.S. development plan is about our interests. Obama made it clear and USAID director Dr. Raj Shah confirmed it.

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A Welcome Shout-Out to Civil Society

Nancy Boswell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Corruption, Barack Obama, Civil-Society, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, MDG Summit, World News
Nancy Boswell

The Obama Administration should help ensure that other governments accord the same regard for civil society as we do. Until civil society can safely share its views and advocate reform, corrupt leaders will not be held accountable.

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The Silent Killer in the Kitchen

Kathy Bushkin Calvin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Three-Dollar-Cook-Stoves, Millennium Development Goals, Clean Stoves, World News
Kathy Bushkin Calvin

For more than 3 billion people, exposure to smoke is an inescapable byproduct of the daily task of preparing a meal over an open fire or a wood-burning stove. Cooking shouldn't kill you -- but in developing countries it does.

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Tackling Corruption at the MDG Summit: Promises, Promises

Nancy Boswell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transparency, U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Corruption, MDG Summit, Barack Obama, United Nations, World News
Nancy Boswell

Corruption will continue to eat away at MDG resources until there is action on specific, time-bound transparency, accountability, and integrity requirements and the resources to achieve them.

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Only Good Governance Can Guarantee Africa Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Tony Blair | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tony Blair

The MDGs are changing lives for the better. As we take stock, we must recognize Africa's progress in the two areas that success with the MDGs depends on: good governance and a thriving private sector.

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Why Global Fund Reform Paves the Way for Robust Pledges

Dr. Paul Zeitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Mdgs, Global Fund, MDG Summit, World News
Dr. Paul Zeitz

Change is hard. It scares people, even those in uncomfortable situations. As I look at the New York skyline, preparing for President Obama's pledge to...

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Lessons From the MDGs

Jamie Holmes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Mdgs, Global Poverty, Poverty, Development, Social Protection, MDG Summit, World News
Jamie Holmes

Social Protection strategies are not a magic bullet for global development. But they may be a necessary condition.

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The Global Fund: An ROI that Gives Life

Dr. Paul Zeitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 6x3, Funding, Global Fund, MDG Summit, World News
Dr. Paul Zeitz

I was near Wall Street yesterday. The money that continues to pour into the investment banks, hedge funds and money center banks is staggering. But th...

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Why This Week's U.N. Summit Should Not Lose Sight of Universal Education

Dr. Paul Zeitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Education for All, Global AIDS Alliance, Education, Desmond Tutu, MDG Summit, Politics News
Dr. Paul Zeitz

U.S. funding for a Global Fund for Education would come exclusively from the U.S. foreign aid budget, and a small pittance of it, at that. Not one penny would be taken from our own children's schools.

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Time for World Leaders, and Everyday People, to Stand Up for the MDGs

Dr. Paul Zeitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), HIV/AIDS Africa, Global Fund, MDG Summit, Politics News
Dr. Paul Zeitz

I witnessed an inspirational sight last week in Johannesburg: A committed group of Africans from seven nations demanded - in the strongest terms possi...

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Global Development: A Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

Mark Suzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Hunger, Mdgs, Progress, Poverty, Global Development, Millennium Development Goals, Ghana, Impact News
Mark Suzman

In Accra, Ghana, an abundance of locally produced fruits, roots, and vegetables for sale speaks to a remarkable achievement: Ghana reduced hunger by nearly 75 percent between 1990 and 2004.

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A Market Solution to Help the World's Poor?

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Dsm, United Nations, Innovation, International Finance Corporation, Hidden Hunger, Business, Stephan Tanda, South Africa, Vitamins, Base of the Pyramid, Micronutrients, Poverty Reduction, Minerals, Economic Growth for Developing Countries, Development, Poverty Alleviation, Poverty, Social Innovation, Ecommerce, World Resources Institute, Developing Countries, Malnutrition, New York, Mdgs, Trade, Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals, Health, Bangladesh, Global Poverty, Free Market, Food Fortification, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

Is there a real business in helping the world's poor? According to the World Resources Institute and the International Finance Corporation, there is.

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Are the MDGs Useful for Africa?

Todd Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

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Todd Moss

Here is a quick summary of my very modest contribution to the online debate whether the MDGs are useful to Africa or not. My sense is that the MDGs are:

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Millennium Development Goals: Love in Action

Marianne Williamson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stop Spread of HIV, U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Reducing Poverty, Women, Global-Activism, Milenium Development Goals, Marianne-Williamson, The Giving Life, World News
Marianne Williamson

The entire direction of human civilization is wrong, as we have placed economic principles before humanitarian values and in so doing have placed the very survival of the human race at risk.

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Italy Hosts Child Soldiers Symposium

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Tamil Tigers, Giulio Terzi, Sri Lanka, Paris Principles, Iraq, Italian Government, Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Rome Symposium on Children and Armed Conflict, U.N. Resolution 1612, Ban Ki-Moon, Warlords, U.N. International School, Sexual Violence, Early Mortality, Francis Deng, Uganda, Suicide Bombing, N.Y.U. School of Law, Poverty, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rome, Unicef, U.N. Security Council?, Child Soldiers, International Save the Children Alliance, Kofi Annan, Save the Children Italy, Radhika Coomaraswamy, u.n. Human Rights Council, Education, Prevention of Genocide, Columbia University, Illiteracy, U.N. General Assembly, Harvard University, Child Rape, Health, Colombo, Innocenti Research Centre, Yale University, United Nations? Millennium Declaration, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Special Representative of the Secretary General, Special Court for Sierra Leone, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Explaining the Tamil Tigers, Children and Young People Affected by Armed Conflict, World News
Jim Luce

With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.

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A Healthy World Starts With Healthy Mothers

Sharon D’Agostino | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Child Development, U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Johnson and Johnson, Unfpa, Millennium Development Goals, Health Education, United Nations, Mothers2mothers, Global Motherhood, Obstetric Fistula, Maternal Health, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Infant Mortality, Impact News
Sharon D’Agostino

The launch of the Global Motherhood partnership between Johnson & Johnson and The Huffington Post offers the opportunity to give voice to the power of mothers as champions for the health and survival of their children, their families and, by extension, their communities.

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