The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up for an innovative new programme in Zimbabwe that will enable poor farming households to improve food ...

In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the Millennium Declaration, which evolved into an ambitious set of concrete targets called the Millennium Development Goals, to be achieved by the end of ...

There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...

This paper examines whether Chinese development finance is associated with faster progress toward Millennium Development Goal style targets in low- and middle-income countries. We combine AidData’s ...

In the run up to the football World Cup, which kicks off next month in South Africa, some of Africa’s most renowned musicians have joined the United Nations to call for a commitment to achieve the ...

Vietnam earned global recognition as a standout performer in achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals. In 2025, the country was estimated to have fulfilled all three major socio-economic ...

As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last ...

Today, fewer people go hungry. There are more children attending school. Fewer and fewer people are dying unnecessarily from easily preventable and treatable diseases. Yet with only 500 days until the ...