Millennium development goals as road map to relief of chronic poverty

Millennium development goals as road map to relief of chronic poverty.

Poverty has been defined differently by nations, international organizations and scholars. Most would agree that poverty involves going without certain essentials, or doing without services, possessions and activities that the well-off take for granted. But what is enough and what goods and services really matter, and who should decide these items? Having an agreed definition is a first step in...

How to Monitor Poverty for the Millennium Development Goals

I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss the choice of a single international line, converted using purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, versus the use of country-specific poverty lines. I note the difficulties in constructing PPP ...

Organic Agriculture, Poverty Reduction, and the Millennium Development Goals

From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mark a historic and eff ective method of global mobilisation to achieve a set of important social priorities worldwide. They express widespread public concern about poverty, hunger, disease, unmet schooling, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. By packaging these priorities into an easily understandable set of eight goals, and by establishing...

From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals.

1. Pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 2006/18, the Commission for Social Development has included the agenda item entitled “Emerging issues” in its programme of work since its 2007-2008 review and policy cycle. Under this agenda item, the Commission addresses current issues affecting social development that require urgent consideration or new cross-cutting issues in the context ...