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3.0 The case for putting pro-poor enterprise at the heart of the war on poverty: Enterprise solutions to poverty
2005 is set to be a big year for poverty. Doubling aid, making trade fair and dropping Third World debt are the headline goals of a campaign being waged and supported by many official and nongovernmental aid and development organisations determined to make ‘Make Poverty History'.

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2.0 Recent Economic Performance in Africa and Prospects for 2007: Economic Report on Africa 2007
African countries still face the critical challenge of raising the rate of GDP growth and sustaining high growth rates over an extended period in order to accelerate progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While growth has recovered over the past few years, very few countries have achieved and maintained the growth rates necessary to reduce poverty. Africa still tails behind other regions in most measures of human development.
2.3 Social Development I: Economic Report on Africa 2007
While growth has recovered on the continent, the gains in terms of social development and poverty reduction are still limited. This sub-section reviews the evidence on social development through the lenses of the MDGs. Following a discussion of progress and challenges for the various goals, the sub-section provides a more detailed discussion of the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS. More details on progress towards the MDGs in Africa is provided in various ECA documents, including a forthcoming report (UNECA 2007), as well as reports by other United Nations publications (e.g. UNDP and UNICEF 2002).
Unleashing entrepreneurship: Making business work for the poor
There has been a big change in the United Nations's engagement with the private sector influenced by its stewardship of the Millennium Development Goals. It was the urgent need to enhance the contribution of the private sector in achieving the MDGs that prompted Secretary General Kofi Annan to appoint a commission to examine how the role of the private sector in this major global effort could be maximized.

Realising the potential of microfinance
Microfinance is a key strategy in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and in building global financial systems that meet needs of most poor people. Although microfinance has demonstrated the potential to reduce poverty, its impacts have varied. Perhaps as a result of these inconsistencies, few donors have prioritised microfinance in their strategies to achieve the MDGs.
Jeffrey Sachs, Elizabeth Littlefield and William Easterly Speak at NYU: The Role of Microfinance in Achieving the MDGs Is Highlighted
The Millennium Development Goals were set forth with a goal to cut extreme poverty in half by the year 2015. The International Public Service Associations Spring Conference of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service was held on March 25, 2005, discussing the topic, "The Millennium Development Goals, Lessons, Opportunities and Challenges."

Redefining Microfinance as a Strategy to Achieve the MDGs: International Year of Microcredit Report Advocates Shift from Poverty Alleviation to Wealth Creation
With microfinance gaining attention for its vital role in eradicating poverty, the International Year of Microcredit recently released a report, "Microfinance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Reader's Guide to the Millennium Project and Other UN Documents", to provide further background and support for microfinance initiatives.
Reaching the MDGs: A Concrete Look at the Challenge of More Effective Aid (Not Just More Aid)
Some acronyms never make it into the mainstream, and forever remain part of the secret language of a closed group of people that share the same profession, hobby or interest. But everyone is talking about the MDGs, or Millennium Development Goals.

Introduction - Abstract - Factors Impeding the Poverty Reduction Capacity of Micro-credit: Some Field Observations from Malawi and Ethiopia
Poverty reduction has been identified as the overarching long term goal for most of the development interventions in Africa, and more recently crystallised in the Millennium Development Goals and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). In Africa, more than 40% of its 750 million people live below the internationally recognized poverty line of $1 a day, and the evidence is even more worrying for sub-saharan Africa.
A new financial architecture for expanding sustainable energy and agribusiness
Many of the impacts unavoidably to come over us in the next decades until stabilized, will fall most heavily on the poorest and most vulnerable communities in developing Countries with the least ability to adapt. Technical and financial assistance will be needed by particularly vulnerable, low-income developing countries to meet their mounting adaption needsKyoto protocol, the declarations as contained in the Millennium Promise (Millennium Development Goals) of the United Nations, the G 8, G 20 and so on have admittedly increased the awareness of politicians that our planet is in danger by Climate Change, Global Economic Crises and political instability. However the practical results were up to date more than poor. We are today from the Millennium Promises more miles away than five or six years ago, and the economic crisis of 2008 is

SME - MILLENNIUM REGION IN THE GABONESE REPUBLIC
WUSME recommends to add supplementary series to the UN Millennium Villages Project by Regions of Economic-, Social-, and Enviromental Excellence. The UN Millennium Villages in African Countries under the auspices of the United Nations and the Earth Institute are a positive example for efficient actions to reach the Millennium Development Goals - MDGs. WUSME WORÉD UNION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES’s proposal aims at amending the Millennium Village Project by Regions of Economic Excellence based on a favorable environment for the development of Micro- Small and Medium Enterprises. The basic features of such Regions will briefly be outlined in this article.
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