Maternal mortality remains unacceptably high in developing countries despite international advocacy, development targets, and simple, affordable and effective interventions.
It also discriminates against small and medium-sized developers – Labour's biggest hope in actually achieving its development targets – who can't afford to lose land because they are struggling with cashflow or supply chain hold-ups.
Current development targets are focused on access, rather than quality.
He has brokered any number of deals between warring parties and negotiated the world's development targets.
Johnson & Johnson will make additional payments based on regulatory and development targets, the company said.
Campaigners have said disabled people are being ignored by global development targets.
This debases the currency of international development targets as a force for change.
The important role that private sector investments can play in reaching development targets should not be dismissed.
Terrorism makes meeting development targets, such as increasing access to education and improving water and sanitation, impossible, Killelea said.
They do, however, deliver services that will be central to meeting health and development targets in the decades to come.
Therefore it seems imperative to take their perspective into account by allowing a greater flexibility in the choice and the weighing of development targets.
