The Broadband Commission Report emphasized the importance of broadband as a means of accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goal of Universal Primary Education and the Education for All goals.
However, biodiversity and ecosystem services are declining at an unprecedented rate and the world failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
Twelve had falls of over 4.4% a year, which is the rate of decline that is needed to meet the millennium development goal (MDG) of cutting by two-thirds the child-mortality rate between 1990 and 2015 (see chart).
After I returned to the UK I found that even though maternal mortality is one of the Millennium Development Goal targets, there was no discussion about it taking place at the upcoming G8 summits.
Without India, the world cannot reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of having every child complete primary school by 2015.
And every day we get closer to the Millennium Development Goal deadline of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
The International Football Association Board (IFAB) gave the go-ahead for the development of goal-line technology in March after a Premier League presentation.
The U.S. global development policy and the G-20 development plan share the goal of helping countries reduce their dependence on foreign assistance by mobilizing foreign investment and domestic capital to foster sustained economic growth.
With the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target date rapidly approaching and discussions about the post-MDG development framework taking place at the highest levels, the time to act is now.
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Pakistan on Friday asked to join the Accelerated Millennium Development Goal Framework process that will allow the country to assess its current education plans, strategies and obstacles to delivery in consultation with international organizations and then work together to contribute to Pakistan's dream of education for all.
As UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education and the UN advocate for the second Millennium Development Goal on primary education, I am passionate about bringing the benefits of education to children and communities across the world.
It is estimated, for instance, that some 2.5 million new engineers and technicians will be needed in sub-Saharan Africa alone if the region is to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal of improved access to clean water and sanitation.
The peer also called on the government to consider introducing a ninth millennium development goal with the aim of reducing the current 30 conflicts around the world by 2015.
The town's economic development goal is a net gain in the next census.
Scott Keller, deputy chief of staff for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says the goal of mixed-income housing is to minimize differences between the city's poor and middle-class.
Better understanding will help in the development of better treatments - but the goal in the medium term is to be able to identify potential problems early on and carry out an accurate prognosis.
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Life is an initiative to facilitate and contribute towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the EFA goals specifically goal 3 (ensuring the learning needs of all young people and adults), 4 (a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy), and 5 (achieving gender equality in education).
But if it is to achieve the goal of development over the next decade, more reform will be needed.
If economic development is the goal, they will achieve it.
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Over the last two years, organizations of different stripes have joined their effort to identify market-based approaches to enterprise development with the goal of increasing the number of women vendors active in the global economy.
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More broadly, we recommitted ourselves and our leadership to the goal of global development.
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The FA's director of development said it was his goal to make the decision to buy foreign players a "tougher one" but he was being prevented from doing so.
It is vital that the overarching goal of sustainable development explicitly features water as a key component in the decision making process and properly incorporate the risks and uncertainties involved.
Here is an excerpt from a speech that I gave today to a room full of seasoned pros at the Mirren Business Development Conference in New York City, with the goal that they make bold choices (more on that later).
The gasolier was the product of scientific and technological development that was financed by entrepreneurs with the main goal of selling it to the largest number of people possible.
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"The aerospace business park will go a long way to helping us achieve the goal set out in our economic development strategy, " said Economic Development and Transport Minister Andrew Davies.
For NASA, Mr. Musk's partner, the goal is to validate development of private cargo vehicles and eventually, fleets of space taxis to take astronauts into orbit.
India tossed the joint development bank idea out there to colleagues last month, stating that the goal was to promote mutual investment and trade among the five countries.
That's the goal of a project under development by Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Media Presence Research Group at the Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco.
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