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Millennium Development Goals

Autore: Matthew Clarke , Simon Feeny

Numero di pagine: 120

In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty. This framework, known as the Millennium Development Goals, was time-bound with an end date of 2015. With this end now in sight, the international community is focusing on the achievement of these goals. However, it is also very important that consideration now turns to what will follow the MDGs after 2015. Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond 2015 provides a critical analysis of the MDGs and discusses a range of issues that must be considered by the international community in determining what poverty alleviation framework might replace the MDGs. This reflection is made even more imperative as the poverty landscape has shifted considerably since these original goals were made. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.

United Nations Millennium Summit

Autore: D.b. Rao

Numero di pagine: 114

Millennium Summit of the United Nations was held from 6 to 8 September 2000 at the United Nations headquarters, New York. The Millennium Summit, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders heads of State or Government or their representatives addressed a host of issues under the official theme The United Nations in the 21st Century.

Millennium Bank, et al.: Securities and Exchange Commission Litigation Complaint

Numero di pagine: 18

Celebrate the Millennium

Autore: Susan Moger

Numero di pagine: 68

What is a millennium? All about calendars. Looking back: Where we've been. Looking ahead. Celebrate a New Year, a New Century, A New Millennium! Special events-2000.

Third Millennium Police

Autore: James Vadackumchery

Numero di pagine: 208

Millennium Development Goals

Autore: Sakiko Fukuda-parr

Numero di pagine: 256

Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically evaluates the MDG experience from the capabilities and human rights perspectives, and questions the use of quantitative targets as an instrument of global governance. It provides an account of their origins, trajectory and influence in shaping the policy agenda, and ideas about international development during the first 15 years of the 21st century. The chapters explore: • whether the goals are adequate as benchmarks for the transformative vision of the Millennium Declaration; • how the goals came to be formulated the way they were, drawing on interviews with key actors who were involved in the process; • how the goals exercised influence through framing to shape policy agendas on the part of both developing countries and the international community; • the political economy that drove the formulation of the goals and their consequences on the agendas of the South and the North; • the effects of quantification and indicators on ideas and action; and • the lessons to be drawn...

2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium

Autore: Terry Mosher

Numero di pagine: 164

TOP 5 REASONS TO HATE THE MILLENNIUM 5. No one knows how to spell it 4. There will be a Rolling Stones Millennium Tour 3. Your new computer program may be Curtains 2000 2. As a kid you figured out how ancient you'd be in the year 2000. Now you are. 1. There are only 999 years left till Y3K Have you had it with Millennium hype? Would you like to exterminate all talk of the Y2K bug? Here's the antidote! 2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium is your guide to surviving the marketing madness surrounding the year you-know-what. Here is advice on such millennial topics as: How to give birth to the first baby of the Millennium Where NOT to be Millennium Eve 2000 products to expect and avoid The Worst Awards: worst books, movies, fashions, and media stories of the last 2000 years 2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium -- Don't Leave This Millennium Without It!

Millennium Challenge Reauthorization Act of 2006

Autore: United States. Congress. House. Committee On International Relations

Numero di pagine: 24

UN Millennium Development Library: Investing in Development

Autore: Jeffrey D. Sachs , The Un Millennium Project

Numero di pagine: 356

This book describes the importance of the millennium development goals and gives an explanation of the progress toward the goals. It provides recommendations to be implemented at the country level and presents a guide for the international system's support for the country-level processes.

Implementation of the Millennium Challenge Act

Autore: United States. Congress. House. Committee On International Relations

Numero di pagine: 44

The Coming of the Millennium

Autore: Darrell Fasching

Numero di pagine: 146

Throughout the last two millennia Christianity understood its divinely mandated mission to be "to conquer the world for Christ." Too often this proclamation led Christians to imagine that their goal must be the elimination of all non-Christians from the world through conversion or, when that fails, through coercion and violence (e.g., the Inquisition, the Crusades, anti-Semitic persecution, Western colonialism, etc.). At the beginning of the third millennium and an age of global diversity, Darrell J. Fasching argues that it is time for Christians to reject this view of their mission, along with the trail of prejudice and violence it has created, and replace militaristic metaphors of conquest with the biblical message of hospitality to the stranger. When we welcome the stranger, according to biblical teachings, we welcome God (Genesis 18:1-5), the Messiah (Matthew 25:35), or an angel of God (Hebrews 13:2). Fasching takes us on a journey through the stories of the Bible to show that diversity is God's covenant intention for humanity. Consequently, the mission of Christians must not be to convert or eliminate non-Christians but rather to welcome them as strangers, for a world without ...

Symposium on the Millennium (JCR Vol. 3 No. 2)

Autore: R. J. Rushdoony , Greg L. Bahnsen , Bruce Bartlett , James B. Jordan , Douglas Kelly , Simon Kistemaker , Tommy W. Rogers , Norman Shepherd , John Sparks

Numero di pagine: 196

The belief that modern Israel fulfills biblical prophecy is a theological aberration. Traditional postmillennialists, amillen-nialists, and premillennialists have never believed that national or geographical Israel is relevant this side of the rapture.

New Technology-based Firms in the New Millennium

Autore: Ray Oakey , Aard Groen , Gary Cook , Peter Van Der Sijde

Numero di pagine: 247

Based on the formation and growth problems of High Technology Small Firms (HTSFs) begun in 1993, this body of work maps the evolution of research in this area through academic research and government policy towards a sector that is the key to future prosperity of developed and developing notational economies throughout the world.

UN Millennium Development Library: Investing in Strategies to Reverse the Global Incidence of TB

Autore: Un Millennium Project

Numero di pagine: 170

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil...

Responsible Growth for the New Millennium

Numero di pagine: 196

This publication considers the key public policy challenges facing the international community in order to achieve balanced, equitable and sustainable development beyond the Millennium Development Goal targets for 2015. Issues considered include: agriculture and rural development, world trade policy reform, poverty reduction, sustainable energy policies, water resources, water supply and sanitation, biodiversity and global environmental challenges, forestry conservation and development, and strategic priorities for social development.

The Millennium Challenge Act of 2003

Autore: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Foreign Relations

Numero di pagine: 12

The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights

Autore: Malcolm Langford , Andy Sumner , Alicia Ely Yamin

Numero di pagine: 575

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have generated tremendous discussion in global policy and academic circles. On the one hand, they have been hailed as the most important initiative ever in international development. On the other hand, they have been described as a great betrayal of human rights and universal values that has contributed to a depoliticization of development. With contributions from scholars from the fields of economics, law, politics, medicine and architecture, this volume sets out to disentangle this debate in both theory and practice. It critically examines the trajectory of the MDGs, the role of human rights in theory and practice, and what criteria might guide the framing of the post-2015 development agenda. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in global agreements on poverty and development.

UN Millennium Development Library: Innovation

Autore: Un Millennium Project

Numero di pagine: 219

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil...

A Treatise on the Millennium

Autore: W. C. Davis

Numero di pagine: 148

The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities

Autore: Nana #n/a

Numero di pagine: 163

As the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than ?snapshot? fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned. But the performance and outlook for the MDGs can neither be reduced to the sum of its eight goals, nor be divorced from international dynamics - the hard interests of states and other actors, and the global dynamics that impact on both. For that reason, this volume balances contextual analysis, the role of formative and constraining forces, the importance of normative considerations and illuminating case studies to deliver a study of the MDGs which has depth and nuance as well as breadth. Poised between judging the recent performance and the future promise of the MDGs, this book is substantial, provocative and timely.This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Financial Sector Development and the Millennium Development Goals

Autore: Stijn Claessens , Erik Feijen

Numero di pagine: 128

This study investigates the relationship between financial sector development and progress in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It assesses the contribution of countries' financial sector development to achieving the MDGs. The focus is on the relationships between financial development and economic welfare and growth, and the following four MDG-themes: Poverty, Education, Health, and Gender Equality. In doing so, the book reviews the theoretical channels, surveys existing empirical evidence - both cross-country and case study evidence, and provides new evidence. Financial Sector Development and the Millennium Development Goals finds that financial development is an important driver for economic welfare in that it reduces the prevalence of income poverty and undernourishment. In addition, new evidence is provided of a positive association between financial development and health, education, and gender equality.

Star Wars Master Models Millennium Falcon

Autore: Benjamin Harper , Claudio Dias

Numero di pagine: 51

This YT-1300 freighter has saved the galaxy more than once, and now you can build it with Star Wars Master Models: Millennium Falcon. Build and display this iconic ship in a manner truly fitting! Relive the Millennium Falcon’s daring rescues and escapes as it aided in the defeat of both Imperial Death Stars. Then build the ultimate model shipcomplete with lights and sound! Star Wars Master Models: Millennium Falcon includes die-cut pieces, a sound module, LED lights, and a detailed instruction booklet to build a foot-wide model of the galaxy’s most famous ship. Also included is Millennium Falcon: Mission Reports, an illustrated book that takes us back through seven pivotal moments in the Star Wars saga when the Falconreally showed its stuff, from escaping Imperial stormtroopers to shuttling Luke and Obi-Wan off Mos Eisley, and the destruction of the second Death Star. The book also includes details of the ship’s modifications, a schematic diagram, crew profiles, and technical sidebars on the Falcon’s most important components. Relive the adventures while you create a replica of the scrappy smuggling ship that made galactic history!

Islamic Perspectives on the New Millennium

Autore: Virginia Matheson Hooker , Amin Saikal

Numero di pagine: 267

The chapters are presented in pairs which offer Middle Eastern (and in one case South Asian) points of view which are matched by Southeast Asian perspectives on each of the six topics. While the media is quick to report on the more violent expressions of Islam, including terrorism, the vigorous debates, which now characterize the intellectual discourse in Muslim communities, are rarely if ever reported. This book not only describes and analyses those debates but also reflects the views of many Muslims across the world, emphasizing the connections and contrasts between the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Southeast Arabia at the Dawn of the Second Millennium

Autore: Derek Kennet , Alyson Caine , Anna Hilton , Lloyd Weeks , Christian Velde

Numero di pagine: 461

First full publication of a cemetery of the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period (2000-1650 BC) in the region of the UAE, a period marked by large scale cultural and economic changes. The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultural homogeneity of the preceding Early Bronze Age, Umm an-Nar period (c. 2700–2000 BC) came to an end and gave way to the Middle Bronze Age, Wadi Suq period (2000–1600 BC). Settlements changed, and possibly began to decline in size and number, the economy changed for many and the important trade in copper ore seems to have declined. In addition, there was a marked change in funerary practices as new types of tombs appeared – both collective and individual burials. All of this took place within the context of a climatic shift that led to a decline in rainfall across many parts of the region. Much of the countryside of south-eastern Iran was abandoned and the urban period of the Indus Valley was weakening. In the midst of this turmoil, the limited agricultural plains of northern Ras al-Khaimah appear to have developed into an island where there was greater...

London Fiction at the Millennium

Autore: Claire Allen

Numero di pagine: 279

This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It explores how a selection of novels can be considered as “second-wave” or “post-postmodern” in light of their borrowing more from mainstream and classical genres as opposed to formally experimental avant-garde techniques. It considers how writers utilise the cultural capital of London in a process of relocating marginalized, subjugated or under-represented voices. The millennium provides an apt symbolic opportunity to reflect on British fiction and to consider the direction in which contemporary authors are moving. As such, key novels by Martin Amis, Bella Bathurst, Bernardine Evaristo, Mark Haddon, Nick Hornby, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, Gautam Malkani, Timothy Mo, Will Self, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Rupert Thomson, and Sarah Waters are used to explore writing beyond the postmodern. ‘In this significant and welcome contribution to the field, Allen provides us with a sophisticated, detailed, and rigorous study of the move in contemporary fiction beyond postmodernism as exemplified by London fiction.’ —Nick Hubble, Brunel ...

A Linguistic Approach to Revelation 19:11–20:6 and the Millennium Binding of Satan

Autore: Alan E. Kurschner

Numero di pagine: 247

This study argues that the establishment of the millennium binding of Satan and the vindication of the saints in Revelation 20:1–6 are cohesively linked with Jesus’s victorious battle in Revelation 19:11–21. The major implication of this analysis views both these events as consequent effects of Christ’s victory at the eschatological battle. Applying systemic functional linguistics and discourse analysis of cohesion, this study advances critical scholarship on the Book of Revelation by offering the first fully sustained answer to this frequently debated question regarding Satan’s binding from a modern linguistic approach.

The Millennium Prize Problems

Autore: James Carlson , Arthur Jaffe , Andrew Wiles

Numero di pagine: 185

On August 8, 1900, at the second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, David Hilbert delivered his famous lecture in which he described twenty-three problems that were to play an influential role in mathematical research. A century later, on May 24, 2000, at a meeting at the Collège de France, the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) announced the creation of a US$7 million prize fund for the solution of seven important classic problems which have resisted solution. The prize fund is divided equally among the seven problems. There is no time limit for their solution. The Millennium Prize Problems were selected by the founding Scientific Advisory Board of CMI—Alain Connes, Arthur Jaffe, Andrew Wiles, and Edward Witten—after consulting with other leading mathematicians. Their aim was somewhat different than that of Hilbert: not to define new challenges, but to record some of the most difficult issues with which mathematicians were struggling at the turn of the second millennium; to recognize achievement in mathematics of historical dimension; to elevate in the consciousness of the general public the fact that in mathematics, the frontier is still open and abounds in...

The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond

Autore: Simon Feeny , Matthew Clarke

Numero di pagine: 216

This book examines how international aid donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) can assist countries in the Asia-Pacific region achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The book examines the progress countries have made towards the MDGs and highlights the need to tailor the goals to individual country circumstances.

Did the Millennium Development Goals Work?

Autore: Manmohan Agarwal , Hany Besada , Leah Mcmillan Polonenko

Numero di pagine: 512

The Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations were deliberately ambitious, and they've been the subject of much debate. Now, with the 2015 target date for many of the goals having passed, it's time to assess the goals and attempt to determine whether they were effective. Gathering leading scholars from a range of backgrounds and regions, this book offers an in-depth exploration of that question, with the aim of better understanding the effects of the Millennium Development Goals and learning from them for future policy decisions.

Satire on a Sad Second Millennium

Autore: James B. Platts

Numero di pagine: 86

Information Management in the New Millennium

Numero di pagine: 704

Papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual Convention of the Society for Information Science and Conference on Information Management in the New Millennium, held at New Delhi during 27-29 January 2000; with special reference to India.

The Dark Side of the Millennium

Autore: Arthur Lewis

Numero di pagine: 92

Dr. Lewis proposes that the evil inherent in the conditions of Revelation 20:1-10 precludes its identity with the glorious kingdom of Christ which is to come. Through comparative studies in the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the Epistles, he demonstrates that the millennial scene best fits into this present age, spanning the time between the first and second comings. Labeling his view "historical millennialism," the author offers a fresh form of the older, orthodox positions of amillennialism. Lewis's view, however, remains distinctive in that he does not spiritualize away the basic features belonging to the thousand years of Revelation 20. Though written in 1980, this volume continues to fill a present lack among evangelicals for materials to judge fairly the amillennial perspective long held by orthodox churches and great theologians of the past, including Augustine. While interpreters of Revelation 20 agree that the millennium will mix good and evil, saint and sinners, Lewis stands among just a few who seriously explore the implications of this fact. This new edition also includes an interview with the author that covers his broader dialogue with dispensationalism.

Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium

Autore: Paul Gready , Wouter Vandenhole

Numero di pagine: 321

In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights. This edited volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of human rights and development agendas at local, national and international levels. They examine how this merging affects organisational change, operational change and the role of relevant actors in bringing about change. With a focus on practice and policy rather than pure theory, the volume also addresses broader questions such as what human rights and development can learn from one another, and whether the connections between the two fields are increasing or declining. The book is structured in three sections: Part I looks at approaches that combine human rights and development, including chapters on drivers of change; indicators; donor; and legal empowerment of the poor. Part II focuses on organisational contexts and includes chapters on the UN at the country level; EU development cooperation; PLAN’s children’s rights-based approach; and ActionAid’s human rights-based approach....

Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond

Autore: Zondervan,

Numero di pagine: 337

Is there biblical evidence for a thousand-year earthly kingdom (the Millennium) ruled by Christ before the fulfillment of the new heaven and new earth? Revelation chapter 20 seems to suggest so, but few books of the Bible are so difficult to interpret. And a discussion of the Millennium branches out into many other theological questions about the end times (eschatology): Are these the last days? What must happen before Jesus returns? What part does the church play? This Counterpoints volume compares three views of the Millennium: Premillennial: Christ will come again before this kingdom is established. Postmillennial: our present age represents that kingdom and that the church is and must move toward the fulfillment of this kingdom. Amillennial: a future Millennium is not a literal kingdom, and when Christ returns, he will usher in an immediate new heaven and new earth. Robert B. Strimple, Kenneth L. Gentry Jr., and Craig A. Blaising offer their perspectives, giving their exegetical reasoning. Each of them then responds to the views held by their peers in a respectful and informative setting, making it easy for you to compare their beliefs and gain a better understanding of how...

Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

Autore: Morton D. Paley

Numero di pagine: 338

The interrelationship of the ideas of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern of British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but in their various ways the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley - question and even at times undermine the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. No matter how confidently the sequence of apocalypse and millennium seems to be affirmed in some of the major works of the period, the issue is always in doubt: the fear that millennium may not ensue emerges as a significant, if often repressed, theme in the great works of the period. Related to it is the tension in Romantic poetry between conflicting models of history itself: history as teleology, developing towards end time and millennium, and history as purposeless cycle. This subject-matter is traced through a selection of works by the major poets, partly through an exposition of their underlying intellectual traditions, and partly through a close examination of the poems themselves.

The Rapture, the End-times and the Millennium

Autore: Russell R. Standish , Colin D. Standish

Numero di pagine: 386

Volume seven of the Antichrist Septenate takes up issues crucial to our understanding of the final events preceding the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

UN Millennium Development Library: Who's Got the Power

Autore: Lynn P. Freedman , Un. Millennium Project

Numero di pagine: 203

1. Introduction -- 2. Analytical context -- 3. Health status and key interventions -- 4. Transforming health systems -- 5. Monitoring goals 4 and 5 : targets and indicators -- 6. Global policy and funding frameworks -- 7. Conclusions and recommendations.