Poverty reduction during 1990–2013: Did millennium development goals adoption and state capacity matter?

Organic Agriculture, Poverty Reduction, and the Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals and urban poverty reduction: great expectations and nonsense statistics

This paper outlines the importance of the Millennium Development Goals for urban populations, and some reasons for concern regarding their implementation. It argues that the institutional structures and processes of international donors and national governments can be incompatible with the effective achievement of poverty reduction. It also explains that the relevance of the Millennium Developm...

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 ...

In Support of the Millennium Development Goals: Gis Use for Poverty Reduction Tasks

To achieve the goal of poverty reduction, as encapsulated within the Millennium Development Goals, the collection, analysis, and use of geographic information as it relates to the multidimensionality of poverty offers a starting point. The spatial handling of poverty is an emerging paradigm for which researches on the spatial modelling of poverty are required. Attempting to contribute to a bett...

Building capacity to attain the Millennium Development Goals.

1. The Millennium Development Goals two-thirds (in relation to the 1990 baseline) or maternal deaths by three-quarters. Reversing the There is only a decade remaining in which to attain the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (Table 1). These goals have the unprecedented support of 189 nations and are a mechanism for holding rich and poor nations accountable for global development...