MDGs

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 [...]

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 [...]