The world has met the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water, five years ahead of schedule. Between 1990 and 2015, 2.6 billion people gained access ...

It marks the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ambitious targets for global progress set by world leaders at the United Nations at the turn of the 20th century. And while it might ...

The Global Monitoring report analyzed the policies and institutions needed to make progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Published annually since 2006, it was discontinued in 2016.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—global targets for 2015 that the world's leaders set at a September 2000 summit meeting—are an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty. 1 It is therefore ...

IN THE United Nations General Assembly of 2000, heads of member states signed the historic Millennium Development Goals (MDGs ...

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 The developing countries as a whole have achieved the target to ...