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26 Sep 2008 No Comments

Ramping Up: Africa and the MDGs

It’s been a historical week in international development as leaders worldwide have ramped up discussions around meeting the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. Increasingly (though not exclusively) Africa-specific concerns, the MDG conversation has generated some significant news over the past few days. Below are links to the buzz: Yesterday’s UN Summit on the 2015 MDGs, a mid-way progress [...]

by admin in FirstGiving news Tags: Africa, Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates, Bono, Clinton Global Initiative, development, economic development, Gates Foundation, Global Fund, Gordon Brown, international development, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, Jeffrey Sachs, Make Poverty History, malaria, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, one campaign, poverty, poverty incidence, poverty line, Rajat Gupta, World Bank

29 Aug 2008 5 Comments

2 Views on Development & Doing Good Well

If you’ve been involved in the discussion about poverty and international development in the past few years, you probably know the name Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs is a development economist at Columbia University, advisor to the UN on the Millennium Development Goals, and author of the bestselling work, The End of Poverty. You may or may not [...]

by admin in FirstGiving news Tags: Africa, aid, Bono, clean water, development economics, development theory and practice, history of development, impact analysis, international aid, international development, Jeffrey Sachs, Make Poverty History, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, NGO, Social media fundraising, social networking, SOL, sustainability, the Earth Institute, the end of poverty, The White Man's Burden, web 2.0, William Easterly

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Ramping Up: Africa and the MDGs

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