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Ghana: Nation set to eradicate extreme poverty, says study
Written by: Melissa Britz Ghana is well on the way to meeting the Millennium Development Goal target of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, according to a study by Britain's Overseas Development Institute.
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What have the Millennium Development Goals ever done for us?
Written by: Katie Nguyen LONDON (AlertNet) - They are too narrow, they do not capture the bigger picture of progress, some can't even be measured.
ETHIOPIA-GHANA: MDG success stories
DAKAR, 16 September 2010 (IRIN) - Many sub-Saharan African countries are off-track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, but there have been pockets of success: Ghana is set to become the first country in Africa to halve poverty and hunger before 2015, while primary school enrolment in Ethiopia has increased by more than 500 percent since 1994, according to the Overseas Development Institute.
Equality is the one item nobody wants on the UN agenda next week
For all the progress on the millennium development goals, it seems countries are growing richer leaving their poor behind
Written by Madeleine Bunting
Comprehensive new reports show progress on Millennium Development Goals
Overseas Development Institute Provides Country-by-Country Assessment of MDGs and Highlights International Development Advances; National and Global Pictures of Progress Emerge as World Enters Final Five-Year Push on Development Goals LONDON (16 September 2010) - As world leaders prepare for next week's Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit at the United Nations in New York, a new body of research examining development progress is published by Britain's leading think-tank on international development, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
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Lant PritchettThursday 16th May, 2013
'For some purposes ‘extreme poverty’ is very useful, whereas for others, like measuring progress in middle income countries where ‘extreme poverty’ is very low or focusing on the continued gaps between rich countries and the rest, it is not useful at all...' -
Martin RavallionFriday 10th May, 2013
'I would suggest we think about monitoring two poverty goals going forward: absolute poverty by the $1.25 a day standard and relative poverty by the standards typical of the country one lives in...'
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