Sentence examples for progress on the mdgs from inspiring English sources

If one looks at the progress on the MDGs, it appears that the goal of 21% living below the poverty line defined as 1.25 USD/day was within reach in 2005.

Despite this increase, progress on the MDGs remains mixed.

Overall, progress on the MDGs for the Pacific Islands is not positive.

In far too many countries, including Cambodia, China, Ethiopia and Rwanda, which are lauded for their progress on the MDGs, simple acts of peaceful dissent against government-dictated development policy carry risks of imprisonment or worse.

What is increasingly clear from progress reports ahead of the 2010 UN summit is that growing inequality is apparent across the globe; too often progress on the MDGs has not reached the poorest sections of the population.

Ten years is a long time, and many millions will be looking to the United Nations General Assembly's summit meeting next week to assess progress on the MDGs for a beacon of hope, a chink of light.

The latest UN report on the progress of the MDGs says that more than 80% of the world's population without access to safe water live in rural areas like Katine (746 million people).

In September 2010, a High Level Plenary meeting of the General Assembly convened to review the progress on the MDG targets and agreed on a concrete action plan to accelerate progress towards their full achievement by 2015.

The 2013 progress report on the MDGs, published in July, pointed out that progress had been uneven among regions, countries and within countries.

In their annual progress report on the MDGs, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) focus on the positive effects of urbanisation.

The latest progress report on the MDGs (pdf), published by the UN last month, shows that last year an estimated 289,000 women died during pregnancy, childbirth or within 42 days of terminating a pregnancy – 62% in sub-Saharan Africa and 24% in southern Asia.