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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (AlertNet) - Big on rhetoric, thin on action. Failed to address root causes of poverty or deliver a big enough boost in aid funds. These are the common criticisms levelled at a U.N summit on ...

Ana served as a Senior Policy Analyst on International Economics. Every September, the Board of Governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meets to discuss their role, work, ...

Earlier this week, a group of journalists met with UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General Jeffrey Sachs, and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on ...

There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...

This report was commissioned by the Population Program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in December 2004. The author was charged with analyzing the United Nations' deliberations that led to ...

Nigeria has been challenged to pursue the Millennium Development Goals on education. Former UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown gave the challenge at the breakfast on MDG/Roll back Malaria which focused ...

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Hon. Alhassan Doguwa has warned that Nigeria is at the risk of missing its target on the MDGs by 2015. He ...

This annual report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations ...