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Author: Adewale Adegoke Alawiye-Adams Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 23
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The nation Nigeria, was one of the 50 richest countries in the world in the early 1970s, but has retrogressed to become one of the 25 poorest countries at threshold of the twenty first century. It is ironic that Nigeria is the sixth largest exporter of oil and at the same time harbors the third largest number of poor people after china and India. What a paradox, but that indeed is the reality today. However, the United Nations Millennium Development agenda is comprehensively addressing the core problems of under-development and primitiveness that continues to set Nigeria back since independence. In September 2000, leaders from 189 nations ratified the Millennium Declaration. The declaration was an unprecedented global commitment and one of the most significant United Nations documents in recent times. It offers a common and integrated vision on how to tackle some of the major challenges facing the world of our time. The declaration has resulted in Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focused on reducing poverty, improving the quality of peoples' lives, ensuring environmental sustainability, and building partnerships to ensure that globalization becomes a more positive force for all the world's people. Also specific targets and indicators have been set and put in place for each of the goals, to be achieved by 2015. This study attempted to identify the key roles financial institutions particularly Micro Finance Banks can play in helping to achieve these MDGs objectives in target time in Nigeria.The study offered the following recommendations amongst others; the need for re-engagement in entrepreneurial development through integrated microfinance model and it also suggested that major efforts should be made to remove the critical material, institutional and policy obstacles that prevent the rural poor from seizing opportunities for improved livelihoods in ways that they themselves can sustain and improve upon.
Author: Adewale Adegoke Alawiye-Adams Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 23
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The nation Nigeria, was one of the 50 richest countries in the world in the early 1970s, but has retrogressed to become one of the 25 poorest countries at threshold of the twenty first century. It is ironic that Nigeria is the sixth largest exporter of oil and at the same time harbors the third largest number of poor people after china and India. What a paradox, but that indeed is the reality today. However, the United Nations Millennium Development agenda is comprehensively addressing the core problems of under-development and primitiveness that continues to set Nigeria back since independence. In September 2000, leaders from 189 nations ratified the Millennium Declaration. The declaration was an unprecedented global commitment and one of the most significant United Nations documents in recent times. It offers a common and integrated vision on how to tackle some of the major challenges facing the world of our time. The declaration has resulted in Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focused on reducing poverty, improving the quality of peoples' lives, ensuring environmental sustainability, and building partnerships to ensure that globalization becomes a more positive force for all the world's people. Also specific targets and indicators have been set and put in place for each of the goals, to be achieved by 2015. This study attempted to identify the key roles financial institutions particularly Micro Finance Banks can play in helping to achieve these MDGs objectives in target time in Nigeria.The study offered the following recommendations amongst others; the need for re-engagement in entrepreneurial development through integrated microfinance model and it also suggested that major efforts should be made to remove the critical material, institutional and policy obstacles that prevent the rural poor from seizing opportunities for improved livelihoods in ways that they themselves can sustain and improve upon.
Author: Nicholas Awortwi Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9994455907 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 287
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In September 2000, world leaders from 189 countries, including 147 Heads of State, gathered at the United Nations General Assembly to consider the challenges of the new millennium. They adopted the Millennium Declaration, which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization (UN 2000 (A/RES/55/2)). The leaders pledged to work towards ensuring that conditions of extreme poverty are eradicated wherever they existed. To actualise this declaration, the UN established eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The goals were broken down into 18 concrete targets and 48 indicators to track progresses in implementation. For the past 14 years thereafter, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been striving to achieve the goals. So far, some have achieved some of the goals, and the results toward the rest of the goals are also by and large positive, though off-target. This book brings together results of studies on progresses and challenges in the implementation of the MDGs in Lesotho, Kenya, Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. The authors focus on selected goals as cases. The book also presents lessons that can inform the post-2015 development agenda.
Author: Chukwuebuka Dominic Onyechi Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan ISBN: 2140115155 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 266
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The Millennium Development Goals adopted by United Nations member states in 2000 were meant to improve a variety of situations affecting the well-being of their inhabitants by 2015: poverty, hunger, education, disease, gender equality and environmental sustainability. In this book, Chukwuebuka Dominic Onyechi evaluates the performance of Nigeria with respect to achieving these goals.He describes the challenges faced by the country and evaluates its successes and failures goal by goal to establish what worked, what didn't, and why.
Author: Eghosa O. Ekhator Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100045536X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 260
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This book explores Nigeria’s progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, presenting key country-specific lessons, as well as providing innovative solutions and practices which are transferrable to other emerging economies. Despite all of Nigeria’s potential, and substantial oil revenues, poverty remains widespread and the country faces many challenges. The contributors to this book provide comparative historical and contemporary analysis of the main challenges for achieving progress in the SDGs, and make recommendations for the most effectives ways of developing, adopting, disseminating and scaling them. Starting with the conceptualisation and evolution of the SDGs, the book goes on to consider the goal on ending poverty, and the urgent need to combat climate change and its impacts. The book also reflects on the role of business and taxation, and the cultural and societal dimensions of the SDGs, including education, gender, and the role of the church. Overall, the book focuses on knowledge/implementation gaps and the role of collaborative partnerships and disruptive technologies in implementing the framework in general. This book will be of interest to scholars, policy makers and practitioners of sustainable development and African studies, as well as those with a particular interest in Nigeria.
Author: Samuel John Presson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Africa, West Languages : en Pages : 140
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Since the creation of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, many of the world's regions have achieved new milestones of development; yet for many nations in Africa little progress has been made. Through a comparative analysis of the nations of Nigeria, Mali, and Burkina-Faso with Cambodia, a successful nation, this paper explains some of the reasons why African nations have fallen behind in the Millennium Development Goals on universal primary education (goal two), reducing child mortality (goal four), and fighting infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria (goal six). The roles of government, economic growth, infrastructure, debt, entrepreneurship, aid, and investment are examined as possible reasons for the difference.
Author: Manmohan Agarwal Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1447335724 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 512
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With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) behind us, this book asks did they work? And what happens next? Arguing that to effectively look forward, we must first look back, the editors of this insightful book gather leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions to provide an in-depth exploration of the MDG project and its impact. Contributors use region-specific case studies to explore the effectiveness of the MDGs in addressing the root causes of poverty, including resource geographies, early childhood development and education, women’s rights and disability rights as well as the impact of the global financial crisis and Arab Spring on MDG attainment. Providing a critical assessment that seeks to inform future policy decisions, the book will be valuable to those working in the development community as well as to academics and students of international development, international relations and development economics.
Author: World Health Organization Publisher: World Health Organization ISBN: 9789241565110 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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In 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come to the end of their term, and a post-2015 agenda, comprising 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), takes their place. This WHO report looks back 15 years at the trends and positive forces during the MDG era and assesses the main challenges that will affect health in the coming 15 years. "Snapshots" on 34 different health topics outline trends, achievements made, reasons for success, challenges and strategic priorities for improving health in the different areas.--
Author: Raj M. Desai Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 0815736649 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 404
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A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "Sustainable Development Goals," to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals—in such areas as education and health care —is laudable in and of itself, and governments and organizations are working hard on them. But so far there is no overall, positive agenda of what new things need to be done to ensure the goals are achieved across all nations. In a search of fresh approaches to the longstanding problems targeted by the Sustainable Development Goals, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings mounted a collaborative research effort to advance implementation of Agenda 2030. This edited volume is the product of that effort. The book approaches the UN's goals through three broad lenses. The first considers new approaches to capturing value. Examples include Nigeria's first green bonds, practical methods to expand women's economic opportunities, benchmarking to reflect business contributions to achieving the goals, new incentives for investment in infrastructure, and educational systems that promote cross-sector problem solving. The second lens entails new approaches to targeting places, including oceans, rural areas, fast-growing developing cities, and the interlocking challenge of data systems, including geospatial information generated by satellites. The third lens focuses on updating governance, broadly defined. Issues include how civil society can align with the SDG challenge; how an advanced economy like Canada can approach the goals at home and abroad; what needs to be done to foster new approaches for managing the global commons; and how can multilateral institutions for health and development finance evolve.
Author: Adewale Adegoke Alawiye-Adams
Author: Adewale Adegoke Alawiye-Adams
Author: Nicholas Awortwi
Author: Chukwuebuka Dominic Onyechi
Author: Eghosa O. Ekhator
Author: Samuel John Presson
Author: Manmohan Agarwal
Author: World Health Organization
Author: Raj M. Desai
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