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