Latest in Tag: Millennium Development Goals Highlight
Latest in Tag: Millennium Development Goals
New annual study to measure progress in sustainable development: CAPMAS
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) will publish a new study every February to measure the government’s progress in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), president of the agency Abou Bakr El-Gendy announced. MDGs are part of the development agenda supported by United Nations. El-Gendy said these focus …
Pope focuses minds on poverty: Now it’s time to change approach
Just coming out of the Assembly Hall at the UN headquarters in New York, and the excitement about the Pope’s address is palpable. He talked to leaders from around the world who are here to sign off on the new development goals that will replace the Millennium Development Goals. It was great and appropriate that …
Coming up with smart ways to end poverty
By Bjørn Lomborg Extreme poverty – or living on less than $1.25 a day – is a continuing problem for far too many people today. In Egypt for instance, such poverty still afflicts about 1.3 million people, according to the World Bank. It is also arguably one of the most important challenges to address because …
Free trade could make every Egyptian $897 richer yearly
By Bjørn Lomborg With one simple policy – more free trade – we could make the world $500tr better off and lift 160m people out of extreme poverty. If there is one question we have to ask ourselves, it is: why don’t we? In 2000, the international community agreed a set of important targets to …
Italy pledges €1m to boost agriculture in Matruh
Minister of Planning cooperating with United Nations to reduce poverty, and improve health and education
Egypt leads North Africa in achieving Millennium Development Goals
Despite leading in several key indicators, Egypt falls behind in terms of gender equality and female representation in parliament