UN Chronicle back issues from March 2008:
About the cover.(Photograph)
Mar 01, 2008 ... This picture, taken by Olivier Asselin, shows shells and sticks (used for counting) and a slate lying on a desk in the village primary school in Essaout in the south-western Ziguinchor region of Senegal. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Young people comprise nearly half of the ...
The mdgs and the latest developed countries: the challenges for landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.(Millennium Development Goal)
Mar 01, 2008; ... When world leaders vowed at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000 to "spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty", they recognized that special measures would be required for the weakest members ...
Accelerating development in fragile States: the role of the OECD development assistance committee.(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development )
Mar 01, 2008; ... One sixth of the world's population lives in fragile States, which are also home to one out of every three people surviving on less than a dollar a day. Of all the children in the world who die before reaching their fifth birthday, half were born in these countries. Of all the women who ...
The Norway-Tanzania partnership initiative: a model for reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.
Mar 01, 2008; ... On 29 November 2007, Norway and the United Republic of Tanzania signed a bilateral agreement to support Tanzania's efforts to reduce child mortality and maternal mortality. The modality for support is to channel funds through a common financing basket for the health sector, together with a ...
Stepping up efforts to reach the MDGs: the Spain-UNDP fund.(Millennium Development Goals)
Mar 01, 2008; ... There has been too little progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). At present, 40 per cent of the world's population is living below the minimum sanitation threshold, two thirds of all illiterate people are women and over 65 per cent of the people ...
A global partnership for development: the United Kingdom is committed to playing its part.
Mar 01, 2008; ... At the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, the international community declared it would spare no effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which included halving global poverty, getting all the world's children into school, reducing infant and maternal mortality, and providing ...
Trading an end to poverty; bridging the MDG implementation gaps through Trade.(Millennium Development Goals )
Mar 01, 2008; ... We live in an age of wonders. From nano-surgery to space stations, networking sites to solar cells, Internet start-ups to smart capital, the world is a more connected, attractive and safe place than was dreamed possible, even fifty years ago. People live longer, healthier lives, with ...
Trade and the MDGs: how trade can help developing countries eradicate poverty.(International trade and Millennium Development Goals )
Mar 01, 2008; ... Developing countries depend on national and global economic growth to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. In this regard, international trade is recognized as a powerful instrument to stimulate economic progress and alleviate poverty. Trade contributes to eradicating ...
Financing for development to reach the MDGs; the experience in the Arab region.(Millennium Development Goals)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Across the Arab region, progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been uneven. Arab countries with higher income per capita stand with better prospects for achieving the Goals than their low-income counterparts. Overall, progress has been achieved in youth literacy, ...
Tackling poverty reduction: the role of the Islamic Development Bank.
Mar 01, 2008; ... Poverly reduction is the greatest challenge facing humanity today. An ideological commitment to reduce or eradicate this phenomenon should be contemplated as part and parcel of social moral responsibility and shared human values across countries and generations. Failure to do so will have ...
Scaling up development efforts for Africa: a global partnership for development is vital for the region.
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) constitute a shared vision of global partnership based on mutual accountability. Developing countries have the primary responsibility for achieving these Goals. But the international community acknowledges that for poor countries to achieve them, a ...
The MDGs in the African region: efforts need to be scaled up to accelerate development.
Mar 01, 2008; ... The midpoint to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)--the time-bound and quantified targets, agreed by world leaders at the 2000 Millennium Summit, for improving the human condition and ensuring gender equality and environmental sustain-ability--was reached in September 2007 ....
The MDGS in Asia and the Pacific: regional partnerships are key to addressing gaps in implementation.(Millennium Development Goals )
Mar 01, 2008; ... Progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Asian and Pacific region is uneven. We achieved success in some, but faltered in others. Even in areas of success, in-country and intra-country disparities persist. The pace of progress is too slow. Unless we act and ...
The MDGs in the Western Asian region; regional cooperation and policies needed to promote development.(Millennium Development Goals)
Mar 01, 2008; ... As the world marks the midpoint between the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 and the target date for their achievement in 2015, an assessment of the Arab region's progress on these is both timely and essential. As a whole, the region has made significant progress ...
The MDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean: employment remains a challenge for poverty reduction.(Millennium Development Goals)
Mar 01, 2008; ... There is no doubt that Latin America is on track to meeting its commitment to halve the 1990 extreme poverty rate by the 2015 target deadline. The most recent estimates by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) show that some 14 million Latin Americans ...
The MDGs in the European region and beyond: a holistic approach needed to correct uneven progress.(Millennium Development Goals)
Mar 01, 2008; ... The regions covered by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)--the whole European continent, North America and Central Asia--are characterized by a tremendous diversity in levels of economic development. While most countries of Western Europe and North America have ...
The Millennium Campaign: successes and challenges in mobilizing support for the MDGs.
Mar 01, 2008; ... It was the best news for decades, when in 2000 world leaders acknowledged that the most urgent matter at the dawn of the new century was to put an end to poverty, and that the world has the resources and the know-how to do so. With the UN Millennium Declaration, the international community ...
Indigenous peoples and the MDGs: inclusive and culturally sensitive solutions.(Millennium Development Goals )
Mar 01, 2008 ... The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summarize the development targets agreed to at international conferences and world summits during the 1990s. At the end of the last century, world leaders distilled the key goals and targets in the Millennium Declaration adopted in September 2000 ....
Ahead of the Curve: a series on development pioneers at the United Nations.
Mar 01, 2008 ... A new series in the UN Chronicle will highlight the major intellectual contributions and policy consequences of work undertaken by major researchers who worked with the United Nations system during their careers. This series of articles will profile key personalities who have made major ...
Hans singer: the gentle giant of UN economists.
Mar 01, 2008; ... Of the many economists who have worked for the United Nations, Hans W. Singer was the one who did more, and for more different parts of the Organization, than any other.(1) During his 22-year career with the United Nations, he worked for the Economic Affairs Department (now DESA), helped ...
Pioneer of development economics.(William Arthur Lewis)
Mar 01, 2008; ... W. Arthur Lewis' best-known contribution to development economics was his path-breaking work on the transfer of labour from a traditional to a modern capitalist sector in conditions of unlimited supplies of labour. His article, "Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour" (1954), ...