Conflict in least-developed countries: challenging the Millennium Development Goals

Conflict in least-developed countries: challenging the Millennium Development Goals.

Five years before the 2015 deadline for achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the picture on progress is mixed. Persisting challenges include dysfunctional health systems, gaps in reliable morbidity and mortality data, uneven progress between goals and growing inequity between subpopulations. Jan Vandemoortele, one of the architects of the MDGs, emphasizes that the ...

Are countries achieving the Millennium Development Goals?

This paper uses two classes of multidimensional indices to measure countries’ evolution towards the achievement of United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Our results suggest that improvements in the different MDGs tend to be uncorrelated among them and, on average, countries are largely offtrack in their way towards MDGs achievement. This evolution has been highly uneven across co...

Industrial Development in Least Developed Countries

Maternal mortality: A challenge in achieving Millennium Development Goals

Introduction: Reducing the labour by an unskilful person is an important strategy in promotion of mother's health and reducing the maternal mortality as the fifth millennium development goals. Methods: This retrospective and descriptive study was accomplishd in 2010.The samples were 189 Iranian mothers with labour by unskilful person in urban and rural area affiliated to Mashhad University of M...

Low-Carbon Development for the Least Developed Countries

The threat that human-induced climate change poses to many of the least developed countries (LdCs) is profound. Greater dependence on rainfed agriculture and forestry as sources of employment and income makes many of them more vulnerable to climatic changes and variability. many LdCs are already subject to climatic stress because of their location in the Tropics and other areas subject to a hig...