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    Nagging Hunger Undermines Millennium Poverty Goal

    by  • May 2, 2012 • Development, Health and Population, Human Rights • 1 Comment

    eradicating hunger

    The first of the eight Millennium Development Goals makes an ambitious demand: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger worldwide. It is now widely accepted that progress has been made in many countries on cutting the percentage of people living with less than the rock-bottom $1.25 a day. But decreasing hunger by half is another sadder story. [...]

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    Scrutinizing Millennium Goal Claims as 2015 Looms

    by  • April 16, 2012 • Development, Health and Population • 2 Comments

    MDG water

    In early March, a report from Unicef and the World Health Organization proclaimed proudly that the world had not only met but also surpassed the Millennium Development Goals target of reducing by half the number of people without access to safe drinking water. The agencies said that 89 percent of the global population — that’s [...]

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    A Rockefeller Got It Right on US Population Growth

    by  • April 12, 2012 • Health and Population, WORLDVIEWS • 2 Comments

    US population growth

    With three major international United Nations conferences being planned or proposed to update the 1992 Rio earth summit, the 1994 Cairo population conference and the 1995 Beijing global meeting on women’s rights, the topic of population growth and its effect on the environment, human development and nations’ progress needs serious discussion. That should start in [...]

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