1. Since the last review of data standards in July 2001, the need for good quality data to monitor economic and social progress within and across countries and to provide the basis for effective ...

It gives me great pleasure to chair the opening session of this important workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to welcome all participants, particularly those ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There is no need for concern over the long list of new U.N. development goals and the even longer list of indicators as they are essential for measuring progress, ...

The Millennium Development Goals report presents a yearly assessment of global progress towards achieving the MDGs. It is prepared by the Statistics Division at DESA on the basis of input provided by ...

We offer a straightforward framework for measurement of progress, across many dimensions, using cross-national social indices, which we classify as linear combinations of multivariate country level ...

Katrina Charles receives funding from the UK Department of International Development. The UN’s millennium development goal target of halving the amount of people with access to safe drinking water has ...

The United Nations has ignored the role of inter-generational influences on health while setting ambitious targets for its millennium development goals to reduce hunger and child mortality, according ...

University of Southampton provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At the end of one of the largest summits at the United Nations headquarters in New York, government representatives from ...