Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Abdoulie Janneh is the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Since joining ECA, he has taken steps to reposition the Commission to better support Africa's development ...

The MDGs were not intended to increase rates of progress in human development so much as maintain them. “If you demand anything more of that list we are going to get into an endless and ...

Noeleen Heyzer is the first woman to head the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) as Executive Secretary. She was also the first Executive Director from the South to ...

Jhenidah has ranked top on an index of performance of the country's districts in achieving Millennium Development Goals. Bandarban emerges as the worst performer, says a study titled Multiple ...

As we reach the 15-year deadline for the MDGs, we’re taking stock of how close ... poverty was the first item on the list. Millennium Development Goal 1, which uses a 1990-level baseline ...

With only less than a year to the 2015 target of the Millennium Development Goals, the South-South states, yesterday, took time off in Abuja to compare notes on what they had been dong in the area ...

New York, November 10 — UNDP and the World Bank Group released its new report “Transitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs” today, coinciding with the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination's ...