Examples of MDG in a sentence
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Despite some efforts to combat poverty, improved access to education, Zambia is still struggling to address decent working conditions, especially in mining supply chains (Zambia daily mail, 2016; MDG report, 2013).
UN Millennium Development Goals MDGsThis project contributes to MDG Goal 8, to develop a global partnership for development, Target 8a: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.
Less than 5.7 per cent of women in the labor force participate in the formal non-agricultural wage-earning labor force, compared with 15.2 per cent of men – the lowest rate for the Pacific region.82 There are 81 2004 MDG report.82 Strategic Directions for Human Development in Papua New Guinea, Asian Development Bank, Australian Agency for International Development, World Bank 2007.
In a third step, we compare the predicted mortality changes to the country-specific child mortality goals set in MDG 4.
In some developed countries, for example, it is reported that the MDG effort may have convinced politicians of public support for effective aid, while in some developing countries, civil society groups used data collected against MDG indicators to lobby parliaments and governments (Manning 2009, 29-30).A cautionary note is that the eight MDGs were seen to have had rhetorical force in part because of their parsimony and simple expression (Miller-Dawkins 2014, 6).
Marketing Discipline Guidelines (MDG) have been formulated and codified uniformly by the Oil Industry under the guidance of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas to prevent fuel adulteration, under the Essential Commodities Act 1955, empowers the State Governments to act against those indulging in adulteration and to take action against RO Dealers / LPG Distributors for established cases of irregularities / malpractices.
According to the latest available estimates, 42% of households in Sub-Saharan Africa remain without access to safe drinking water, and 64% of households remain without access to basic sanitation (WHO/UNICEF, 2004), leading the MDG report to conclude that “…rapid acceleration of progress is needed to bring improved sanitation.
With respect to MDG 7 (ensure environmental sustainability) and MDG 8 (global partnerships) the progress achieved is inconclusive.
By that time the results of the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra and of the MDG High Level Event, envisaged in the framework of the Ban Ki-Moon's "MDG Africa-Steering Group" will be known and hence feed into the Doha process.