We analysed the performance of Ethiopia in achieving the health-related millennium development goals (MDGs) with the aim of acquiring lessons for the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Ethiopia achieved most of the health MDGs: a 67% reduction in under-five mortality, a 71% decline in maternal mortality ratio, a 90% decline in new HIV infections, a decrease in malaria-related deaths by 73% a...

For the last 20 years, the international development debate has been dominated by two trends that seem at first to be heading in a similar direction. However, under closer scrutiny they differ with respect to their focus and underlying philosophies. These are on the one hand the agenda of reducing poverty in developing countries in its various dimensions (lack of income, education, water, polit...

The year 2015 will bring key milestones in two areas related to global energy policies and governance: sustainable development and climate change. The current United Nations (UN) sustainable development framework, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), will terminate in 2015 and a new programme will start based on a new set of ‘Sustainable Development Goals’. The Ad Hoc Working Group on the D...