This year's report focuses on how well countries are doing in reaching eight-stated Millennium Development Goals, including cutting poverty by half and reducing child and maternal mortality.

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The titles of these songs will be inspired by the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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The UN's millennium development goals, like most other aid declarations, reflect the old way of doing aid.

ECONOMIST: Wealth, poverty and fragile states

And though it often fails to meet its public-service agreements, these are unfeasibly ambitious targets linked to the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

ECONOMIST: Foreign aid in a recession