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...

A major attraction of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and a reason for their widespread acceptance was the clear focus on achievement of equity. However, a major criticism of the goals, in so far as they relate to health, is the absence of a clear and categorical commitment to specifi c normative goals for mental health. This omission is striking since mental illnesses contribute to nea...

oral reefs around the world have suffered from 3 years of coral bleaching, following three decades of record high temperatures. It is now clear that coral reefs cannot survive, unchanged, under climate change. Their final state will depend not only on societal conviction to restore coral health but also on the ability to sustain investments and action that support this commitment. For the past ...

Correspondence to Abdur Razzaque Sarker; [email protected] Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world and has enjoyed a steady annual economic growth of 5–6% for more than a decade. According to the Bangladesh economic review, the incidence of poverty has declined considerably from 56.7% in 1991–1992 to 24.8% in 2015. The demographic structure of Bangladesh is chan...

The world is currently facing multiple challenges, including pandemics of contagious diseases such as COVID-19, persistent extreme poverty, severe impacts global warming and climate change, well rising inequality in many countries. Under these circumstances, few people would disagree with the idea that values practices embodied concept “quality” growth are now needed more urgently than ever. ca...

Metallic iron (Fe0)-based filtration systems have the potential to significantly contribute to the achievement of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of substantially improving the human condition by 2030 through the provision of clean water. Recent knowledge on Fe0-based safe drinking water filters is addressed herein. They are categorized into two types: Household and...

The ‘worst-off’ have been targeted in international development interventions for decades, including the current push towards evaluating progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens (see, for example, Bamberger and Segone 2011; UNICEF 2011). Even in developed nations, the rhetoric of politicians, organisations and programs has...