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Chronic poverty increases as the poor move increasingly into urban cities

Dhaka, Bangladesh slum children

WNN MDG Stories (WNN/IRIN) GLOBAL: In a world where more than half of the population lives in cities, poverty is increasingly an urban phenomenon. As researchers and aid agencies struggle to distinguish between chronic poverty and acute vulnerability IRIN, a humanitarian news service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reviewed efforts [...]

Global child mortality numbers drop as 2015 expectations remain cautious

Nigerian sister holds sibling who is a polio victim as mother looks on with other children

Emma Batha – WNN Breaking (WNN/Reuters/AlertNet) London, UNITED KINGDOM: Annual maternal deaths have fallen by almost half since 1990 and the number of children under five dying has dropped from 12 million to 7.6 million (2010). But more than 50 countries are unlikely to meet internationally agreed targets for cutting mortality rates for young children [...]

Global Failed States Index fails to bring a progress picture to the table

Somalian IDPs

Claire Leigh - WNN MDG Stories (WNN/GD/PMB) London, UNITED KINGDOM: The latest edition of Foreign Policy magazine contains the 2012 edition of the notorious Failed States Index (FSI). This annual compendium of failure is produced in collaboration with the Fund for Peace. It makes for depressing reading at the best of times, especially when published alongside [...]

Indigenous communities help prevent deforestation better than conservation

Indigenous Karen community harvests rice in the highlands of Thailand

Dr. Maurizio Farhan-Ferrari – WNN MDG Stories (WNN/LPFN) GLOBAL: Two peer-reviewed studies published recently by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Bank show that strict conservation is less effective in reducing deforestation than community forests that are managed and controlled by indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities within multiple use systems. This [...]

Is it possible to improve health standards for global women without economic growth?

Women from Tianjin, China sells red chili peppers

Jayati Ghosh - WNN MDG Stories (WNN) ASIA: We know that economic growth and human development do not always go hand in hand, as evidenced by the very different position of countries in per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rankings compared with human development rankings. But the link between health conditions and economic growth is usually [...]

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