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Resources on the Millennium Development Goals


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Agriculture for development


World Bank: World Development report 2008
This report provides experts, activists and others with information and analysis on the importance of agriculture as a vital tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. The Report also provides guidance to governments and the international community on designing and implementing agriculture-for-development agendas that can make a difference in the lives of hundreds of millions of rural poor.
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Developmental States in the New Millenium: Concepts and Challanges for a new Aid Agenda


The developmental state is back at the centre of the international policy debate. But policy-makers still have much to learn from the large research-based literature on the subject. In introducing a theme issue of DPR on this subject, this article provides an overview of three central topics: the relationship between the project of building or rebuilding effective states and the 'good governance' agenda; the role of the international aid community in stimulating or hindering state-building; and the search for a way forward which incorporates awareness of the variety of successful development models and of the role that aid inevitably plays in the incentive structure of state elites in poor developing countries.2007.
Authors: Verena Fritz and Alina Rocha Menocal
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A human rights perspective of the Millennium Development Goals


P. Alston (2005)
This paper was prepared as a contribution to the work of the Millennium Project Task Force on Poverty and Economic Development.
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Millenium Development Goals at midpoint: Where do we stand?


Authors: F. Bourguignon, et al.
(Department for International Development, UK and Directorate General Development of the European Commission)
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Overview of MDG costing methodologies


A. Heuty: UNDP
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MDG Campaigning Toolkit


For civil society organisations engaged in the Millennium Development Goals.
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The Millennium Development Goals: Helping or harming minorities?


Minority Rights Group International (2005)
Working paper, United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Working Group on Minorities.
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Achieving the MDGs: A critique and a strategy


S. Reddy & A. Heuty (2004)
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Making sense of MDG costing


Poverty Group UNDP (2004)
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Preparing national strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals: A handbook


UNDP (2006)
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Websites


United Nations Development Group


The online UN portal on the Millennium Development Goals.
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Millennium Development Goals Indicators Database


This websites displays data, statistics and publication on the development of the MDGs.
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Millennium Campaign


An overview of MDG campaigns, and a clear list of what the MDGs are all about.
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