Essays about: "millennium development goals"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 77 essays containing the words millennium development goals.

1. 31. The Politicization of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: In the Post-Millennium Development Goals negotiations

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Adriana Pereira; [2014]
   Keywords : Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights; Human Rights; Post-MDGs; Women’s health; advocacy networks; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) emerged from a fragmentation of different meaning of SRHR coming together to form one complex policy area. SRHR has been politicized in the past by predominant activist groups such as human rights and feminists (including those working with both fields simultaneously). READ MORE

3. 32. EU Aid and Foreign Direct Investment - A Study of the Effectiveness of EU Sector ODA on FDI in Developing Countries

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Karin Linder; [2014]
   Keywords : ODA; FDI; EU; developing countries; panel data regression analysis; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Research on aid is continuously exploring new channels to measure its effectiveness on economic development. The Millennium Development Goals have set the standard for aid policy-making and now, when facing deadline, its partakers have to set a new aid policy-agenda. READ MORE

4. 33. The Grameen Bank and Beyond the Millennium Development Goals : Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Georg Strasser; [2014]
   Keywords : Sustainable Development; microfinance; Grameen Bank; poverty; Millennium Development Goals;

   Abstract : Inspired by the precedence of eradicating worldwide poverty and the unresolved discussion how to solve this problem, this paper attempts to illustrate how microfinance by the Grameen Bank can alleviate poverty beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). These goals are arguably limited by the use of poverty lines and may not reflect the true level of poverty beyond quantifications. READ MORE

5. 34. The Effects of Household Water Access on Employment in SSA: Is There a Gender Difference?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Andrea Berggren; Anders Dankvardt; [2013-03-28]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Several of the Millennium Development Goals stress the importance of working for improved drinking water, gender equality and employment to improve the life of people as well as creating growth in developing countries. Literature suggests investments in infrastructure increase the probability of employment. READ MORE

6. 35. The Regional and Rural-Urban Disparities of Primary Education in China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Xi Chen; [2013]
   Keywords : primary education; regional disparities; China; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Education is seen as one of the key solutions to various social problems in the field of development studies. Primary education particularly lays the basis of forming knowledge and ability to access higher levels of other social activities. READ MORE