Poverty Reduction

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Achieving Debt Sustainability and the Millennium Development Goals in SIDS

This discussion paper explores critically high levels of public debt and debt service across many small island developing states. It asks to what extent debt may be hampering progress towards poverty reduction and the MDGs and puts forward a series of policy measures to support SIDS reduce their more

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Achieving Millennium Development Goals: Partnership and Participation

The paper raises key issues and challenges for creating collaborative partnerships and participation, particularly in new or restored democracies, in achieving MDGs, exploring on the how to issues – how to develop a road map, how to ensure government and civil society organization collaboration, more

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Achieving the MDGs in Africa

The concrete Millennium Development Goal results identified in this document map out a set of minimum thresholds in agriculture, nutrition, education, health and infrastructure that, if fully achieved, will allow African communities and countries to raise productivity and compete successfully more

Active Macroeconomic Policy for Accelerating Achievement for the MDG Targets

This paper argues that, although the global financial crisis is undermining the achievement of the MDGs, active macroeconomic policies can mitigate the negative impacts. The paper shows that MDG-focused countercyclical macroeconomic policies: fiscal, monetary and exchange rate are feasible in more

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Active Macroeconomic Policy for Accelerating Achievement of the MDG Targets

This paper argues that, although the global financial crisis is undermining the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, active macroeconomic policies can mitigate the negative impacts. The paper shows that MDG-focused countercyclical macroeconomic policies: fiscal, monetary and exchange more

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Poverty Reduction

 

The Millennium Development Goals originate from the Millennium Declaration, endorsed by 189 world leaders at the UN in September 2000. Over the past decade, the world has made impressive progress towards achieving these goals, yet some countries are lagging and many of them may not be able to reach their goals by 2015.

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