Millennium Development Goals
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A movement to recommend that donors stop putting restrictions on their donations. Instead, it supports a free...
In 2009, 50.2 million Americans (up from 35.5 million in 2006), including 17.2 million children, are food insecure, or didn...
One in five adults in the developing world — almost 862 million people — cannot read or write.
Most illiterate persons are...
When talking about helping developing countries, people throw around the term microfinance. You might be wondering (and too...
In 2010, some 3.3 billion people lived in areas at risk of malaria transmission in 107 countries and territories, including...
Seth was a 19-year-old acting student in Los Angeles when a brief meeting with a friend who’d just returned from Africa changed...
In the past 60 years, vaccines have helped eradicate one disease (smallpox) and are close to eradicating another (polio)....
Hunger emergencies are gauged by a system called the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), originally created...
In 2000, the leaders of the 189 countries that are members of the UN agreed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which...
What's the difference between Free Trade and Fair Trade? Free trade advocates and fair trade advocates have a lot of goals in...
What are the Millennium Development Goals?
In September 2000, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders welcomed the new...
