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[MDGs]

Articles:
Why are the MDGs important?
http://www.raleighinternational.org/amb assadors/millennium-developmentgoals/why-are-mdgs-important

ASIA PACIFIC AND THE MDGs:

Between 1990 and 2009 the Asia-Pacific region reduced the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day from 50 to 22 per cent. Despite the reduction, the proportion of the population living below the $1.25-per-day poverty level rate ranges from country to country, as low as 0 per cent in Malaysia to as high as 55 per cent in Nepal. At the present rate of progress, the region as a whole is unlikely to meet MDGs related to eradicating hunger, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health. The number of people without access to safe drinking water in the region fell from 856 million to 466 million between 1990 and 2008. Fourteen off-track Asia-Pacific countries need to accelerate progress by less than 2 percentage points annually to reach the target of halving the proportion of underweight children by 2015.

Extreme poverty and the MDGs;

http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/globa l/shared/documents/publications/2005/r educingpoverty_mdg.pdf

Videos:
Crowd sourcing the MDGs;
https://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jami e_drummond_how_to_set_goals_for_the _world.html

Websites:
Official website for MDGs;
http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/h ome/mdgoverview.html

Australias role in achieving the MDGs;

http://ausaid.gov.au/aidissues/mdg/Page s/home.aspx