Sentence examples for millenium development goals from inspiring English sources
When the original millenium development goals (MDGs) were formulated, happiness economics barely existed.
In the short term, we hope that the malaria-specific Millenium Development Goals are achieved by 2015 and that the number of cases is reduced by 75%.
The United Nations are currently formulating the Sustainable development goals (SDGs), which will replace the Millenium development goals following the latter's target date being reached in 2015.
By making visible the connections between economic and political empowerment, we can understand why education of girls remains a problem as we approach the end of the millenium development goals.
This general assembly will see the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, the follow-up to the UN's millenium development goals which were set in 2000 with a completion date of this year.
On top of the escalating Ebola crisis, unabating violence in Syria, terror threats from Isis and the increasingly evident effects of climate change (to name just a handful of concerns), the end of the millenium development goals next year will be an intense period of reflection and future planning.
All this sounds promising for a country beset by failing public administration and systematic corruption, and that looks set to fail all of the UN Millenium Development Goals despite strong economic growth of the last few years.
And we aim to develop regional partnerships for the achievements of the Millenium Development Goals and push for sustainable development beyond 2015.
The UN's Millenium Development Goals point out that about 11% of the global population is still without access to safe water.
Whereas the Millenium Development Goals were at least about what the public sector and NGOs could do about development, the Sustainable Development Goals are now all about delivering through corporate partnerships.
Indeed, the word "development" already appeared in the MDGs (Millenium Development Goals).
