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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"United Nations' Millennium Development Goals"”.
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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
… to assess the 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 …
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Elevating Sub-Saharan Africa: The Effect of Infrastructure Investment in Alleviating Poverty
… study investigates the effect of infrastructure development on poverty reduction in 35 SubSaharan African countries from 2005 to 2015. This timeframe was chosen as it encapsulates the final 11 years of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals era, recognised as one of the most significant …
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Secondary schooling for girls in rural Uganda: challenges, opportunities and emerging identities
… Education For All initiative as well as the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, is promoted and/or achieved in the National Strategy for Girls’ Education in Uganda (NSGE). I consider various ideological understandings of international development in general as well as development …
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The effects of an intermittent piped water network and storage practices on household water quality in Tamale, Ghana
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals include a target to halve the number of people without access to "improved" water sources, which include piped water supply. However, an "improved" source of water does not necessarily indicate a safe source. The city of Tamale in northern Ghana has a …
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Participatory Perspectives: A Photovoice Narrative Study of Zambian Vulnerable Youth
<p>The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals aim to meet the needs of the world's poorest people by 2015 through universally agreed upon targets. Goal number two aims to provide universal primary education and states that "by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to …
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Human Capabilities and Collectivist Justice
… Nussbaum, has been a stalwart of the human development literature for the last 30 years, and its core ideals underwrite the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. This dissertation offers a new version of the approach, rejecting many of its ideological commitments to …
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An exploration of the role of women in the household poverty alleviation in the Amatikulu area, Umlalazi Municipality,Kwa-Zulu Natal province
… standard of living. In the year 2000, the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (that isgoal 3) aimed at eradicating feminized poverty, and in 2015 the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reinforced this commitment. This resonates with challenges faced in South Africa since 1994, as …
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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 …