the millennium development goals (mdgs) are eight international development goals and 21 targets that all countries have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. central asian countries have shown uneven progress in achieving these goals. this paper conducts a comparative study of the impact of economic integration of the regional countries into the world economy on uneven progress of central asian ...

The adoption of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a historical momentum for disabled persons and their associates, as well as ODA workers in the development cooperation field all over the world. For the last two decades, persons with disabilities, their associates and professionals working in this field have promoted their human rights, equality, nondisc...

Despite the shortcomings of the Millennium Development Goals as a development tool, they have proven to be an important communication tool that is worth preserving after 2015. Inclusion of important themes of the Millennium Declaration and elements of the capability theory is essential in a post-2015 system, as well as putting human rights and gender principles at its core. Process orientation ...

To cite: Beattie RM, Brown NJ, Cass H. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 1):s1. This supplement reflects on the progress made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with particular respect to child health. The goals, adopted by 189 countries, were set by the United Nations in 2000 and related to what could be achieved by 2015. They highlighted a set of specific targets. ...

INTRODUCTION I. EQUILIBRIUM Economic institutions of developing countries—Rationality and Efficiency Inequality in developing countries Features of developing countries that impede development Role of the state 1. Information 2. Knowledge 3. Social and Organizational Capital Poverty Traps II. DYNAMICS OF CHANGE Development as Transformation Reform Evolutionary Change Internal sources of change ...

To cite: OudesluysMurphy AM. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 1):s72–s73. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Although the term ’Europe’ is regularly taken to include only the 28 countries of the European Union (often expanded to include Norway and Switzerland), the European region of WHO comprises 53 countries, home to nearly 900 million people (table 1). The countries vary in size, languages, political ...

T he first child survival revolution led by UNICEF saw a fall in global under five child mortality (U5MR) from 121 in 1980 to 88 in 1986. It brought together the big players in international health and built momentum through a strategy of social mobilisation. This focused on four low cost primary care interventions (growth monitoring, oral rehydration, breast feeding, and immunisation). The sec...