Administering rural development: Have goals outreached organizational capacity?

Modeling organizational goals:

Organizational change, whether it involves the development of a computerized system or the re-engineering of business processes, is a purposive activity driven by the goals of the involved stakeholders. Its effectiveness depends on being able to make good decisions about what goals to pursue and on selecting the appropriate strategies for achieving the desired goals. This paper presents an anal...

Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals

Malaria in Rural Nigeria: Implications for the Millennium Development Goals

In recent years, there has been increase in human and financial commitments to malaria control, nationally and internationally, partly due to the need to meet the development targets set in the millennium development goals (MDGs). However, these efforts have not translated into significant decrease in the disease incidence and its impact in Nigeria. Using the cost of illness analysis, the paper...

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Rural Investment and Enabling Policy

Building capacity to attain the Millennium Development Goals.

1. The Millennium Development Goals two-thirds (in relation to the 1990 baseline) or maternal deaths by three-quarters. Reversing the There is only a decade remaining in which to attain the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (Table 1). These goals have the unprecedented support of 189 nations and are a mechanism for holding rich and poor nations accountable for global development...