MDGs

Official statistics indicate that both consumption poverty and multidimensional poverty declined during 2000–2015

With 17 goals and 169 targets, this is a much wider agenda than the MDGs

As spending in developed areas gets heftier, the less developed ones lag further behind

Unit would provide requisite evidence, analysis and debate on public policy

Centrally planned, top-down approaches to foreign assistance often fail to build sustainable capacity

Notes that too many children still die of preventable causes

There is an urgent need to focus on girls’ education in Pakistan, particularly in areas like Balochistan, Fata, etc

Workshop held to discuss implementation of Sustainable Development Goals.

There is the huge disparity in numbers that exists at different stages of education

The vision of 100 per cent literacy — especially in Sindh — seems to be fading like a mythical dream

The SDGs are aspirational, even more so than their predecessors

Focus of NGOs should be to automate; digitise, so as to accelerate change in overcoming society’s colossal...

Planning minister says Pakistan behind regional countries

The total number of adult illiterates in the country adds up to 100 million people

Unlike the MDGs, the SDGs were formulated subsequent to the largest consultation process in UN history

Pakistan has missed all but two of eight MDG targets by the 2015 deadline

Concept suits decision-makers, not marginalised population.

Currently, there are indications that health care spending at the provincial level is actually dropping