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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)"”.
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Progress towards achieving the United Nations' first Millennium Development Goal: an analysis of income and food poverty in Nigeria's states of Osun and Jigawa
… progress towards attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals’(MDGs) targets on poverty reduction in these states in order to verify claims of previous studies and analyses regarding these. The study uses both the individual and the family household in both Osun and Jigawa States …
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A Ajuda Oficial pra o Desenvolvimento a partir de três perspectivas teóricas
Since the end of the World War II, development issues have become central to the international agenda. Each subsequent decade has set up scenarios with differing perspectives on development goals and strategies, but in all of them Official Development Assistance (ODA) has remained one of the main …
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A comparative case study of female literacy and development in Guatemala and Bolivia
… projects and international aid were provided as development strategies in Latin America to improve gender equality in education and literacy rates during the 1990s. Female literacy was view as an important goal in obtaining human and economic development in the region of Latin America. Guatemala …
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Poverty Reduction in Burundi: A Case Study of the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
<p>The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were officially established by the United Nations in 2000 following the adoption of the United Nations’ Millennium Declaration. The aim of these goals is to free humanity from extreme poverty, hunger, …
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Impact of debt relief on fiscal allocation to social priority sectors and response of social indicators in the HIPCs : a case study of Tanzania
… against poverty and ultimately attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS).
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Sustainability and sustainable development: an investigation on the role of Islamic finance and other determinants in the OIC member countries
… a more prominent topic of global discussion. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations are regarded as benchmarks for country-level sustainability attainment. Recognising the MDGs and SDGs as the established framework for advancing the …
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Combining theoretical concepts and tools: mapping human deprivation in the City of Cape Town
… represents a contemporary 'paradox of development' that urgently nee4J to be addressed at the city scale. This research explores the argument that confusion over the measurement of human deprivation still exists, despite various development initiatives, in part because of a disconnect …
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IMPROVING DISTRICT HEALTH MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE: A NEW FRAMEWORK WITH TOOLS FOR SITUATION ANALYSIS
… considerable resources to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in low income countries. Special efforts have gone into achieving the health-related MDGs. Early in the process, many realized that health systems in poor countries would have to be strengthened to deliver the …
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Intent to Action: Overcoming Barriers to Universal Basic Education Policy Implementation in Nigeria
… The hope of meeting the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which aim to achieve compulsory universal basic education for all children by 2015, is in serious doubt in Nigeria because of the issue of access. It was against this background that this study investigated the …
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Ghana's regional development in economics, education and natural resources, with a case study on customers' preferences for household water treatment & safe storage products
… Ghana is still in the process of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This thesis uses the MDGs as a guide and backdrop against which to analyze the relationships between economics, education and natural resources. The analysis helps provide recommendation for regional development …
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Teachers’ experiences in the implementation of early childhood education curriculum in selected public primary schools in Kitwe district, Zambia.
… 2014, was occasioned by the need to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and to deal with inequalities created by the provision of ECE mainly by the private sector. Due to lack of ECE trained teachers in public primary schools, the government co-opted primary school teachers …
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Achieving Enhanced Levels of Human Development Without Waiting on Advances in Economic Development
… scholars are engaged in efforts to improve human development (HD), which, for the United Nations (UN) Development Program, is about allowing people choices in their lives and providing tools with which to make those choices. Success in increasing human development will impact the daily lives of a …
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Education for democratic citizenship and cosmopolitanism: The case of the republic of Namibia
… system, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Moreover, an appeal is made for the Namibian citizenship education system to consolidate the idea · of cosmopolitanism, that is; hospitality and forgiveness, if the NEPAD initiative is …
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A retrospective comparative analysis of the maternal and child health MDGs in Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda: Beyond 2015
The timeline of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) elapsed in 2015, global indicators showed that Africa still accounts for almost half of all child deaths globally and has the world’s highest maternal mortality rates. By the year 2015, Africa as a continent was unable to meet the maternal and …
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THE IMPACT OF RURAL BANKS’ MICROFINANCE INTERVENTIONS ON POVERTY REDUCTIONS AMONG THE FISHING COMMUNITIES IN GHANA
… for poverty reduction and rural socio-economic development. However, poverty still denies many people in developing economies their basic needs. Nearly three decades after the global community welcomed the advent of microfinance as a tool for poverty eradication, people in both the urban and …
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Importance of utilization of social capital in agro-based poverty reduction strategies in smallholder farming area in North-Eastern Zimbabwe
… poverty, human poverty index (HPI) and human development index (HDI) were calculated. The extent to which four primary social capital scales predicted the total mean monthly expenditure per capita (serving as a proxy measure of poverty) was determined using the multiple regression analysis …
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Analysis of barriers and success factors affecting the adoption of sustainable management of municipal solid waste in Abuja, Nigeria
… attention given to it in the United Nations (UN) Millennium Declaration. Three of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) outlined in the declaration have waste or resource efficiency implications. In response to the waste challenge many developed countries have embarked upon ambitious …
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Developing GIS analysis techniques for the measurement of safe drinking water access
… of public facilities and infrastructures. The development of innovative GIS tools has informed approaches for researching demographic and socioeconomic problems. Nevertheless, GIS methods have not yet been developed for construction of water indices that can provide measures of household …
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An exploration of developments of corporate social responsibility
… research sets out to contribute knowledge about developments and implementation of corporate social responsibility. The six papers used in the submission (thesis) bring together different perspectives of corporate social responsibility garnered from empirical investigations of corporate entities …
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Corporate social responsibility as a tool to accelerate the achievement of development goals in Zimbabwe
… as a tool to accelerate the achievement of development goals in Zimbabwe. The main question is how CSR can be used to speed up the achievement of development goals? The paper will focus on how CSR can be used to achieve national development goals and MDGs that will soon be integrated into …
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