Development in the News
Background
- The Millennium Villages
[The Earth Institute] - About the Millennium Development Goals
[United Nations] - Millennium PROMISE
[millenniumpromise.org] - Millennium Promise Pressroom
[millenniumpromise.org] - Millennium Villages: A New Approach to
Fighting Poverty
[U.N. Millennium Project] - Millennium Campaign: Voices Against Poverty
[millenniumcampaign.org] - The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffery Sachs in Africa
[thinkMTV] - MDG Goals Report 2008 [pdf]
[United Nations]
Recent News/Links
- International Development News
[RTI International] - Achieving the Millennium Developmental Goals in Africa
[MDG Africa Steering Group] - The IMF and the Millennium Developmental Goals
[International Monetary Fund] - Consilience Journal from the Columbia Earth Institute
[Consilience] - A good overview of the Millennium Villages and results to date, published in Consilience
[Consilience] - UN officials stress need to protect world’s poorest amid financial crisis
[UN News Centre - 24 Oct 2008] - Ban holds talks with economists on impact of financial crisis on poverty goals
[UN News Centre - 23 Oct 2008] - Record-breaking 117 million people stand with UN against poverty
[UN News Centre - 22 Oct 2008] - Millennium Promise Unites with World-Leading Organizations to Build Support for
the Millennium Development Goals [pdf]
[Millennium Promise - 16 Oct 2008] - Financial crisis threatens efforts towards global anti-poverty targets, says Migiro
[UN News Centre - 6 Oct 2008] - World Leaders Commit Record Billions to Tackle Malaria
[Malaria No More - 25 Sept 2008] - World Bank Finds More People Live in Steep Poverty
[The New York Times - 26 Aug 2008] - Malawi Rural Dwellers Benefit from Millennium Villages
[Voices of America News - 25 Aug 2008] - The Magnificent Seven: How a few simple reforms can lift African villages out of poverty [pdf]
[The Economist]
