A Business Guide to Development Actors: Introducing Company Managers to the Development Community |
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Page 104 - Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education...
Page 104 - TARGET 8. Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. 21. Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria 22. Proportion of population in malaria risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures 23.
Page 104 - Target 8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability Target 9.
Page 11 - Poverty is not being able to go to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom.
Page 104 - Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day...
Page 105 - Target 15: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term Target 16; In cooperation with developing countries.
Page 105 - In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications...
Page 47 - Its mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnerships in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
Page 54 - Bank includes the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).
Page 105 - Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term Target 16. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth Target 17.