Millenium Challenge

WASHINGTON – At long last, success. Almost seven years after it first applied for assistance from the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), the Philippines finally got a $434-million development grant from the innovative US foreign aid program to reduce poverty through economic growth.

The head of the United Nations on Tuesday cited “significant gains” of the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) but said that more needs to be done to fully accomplish the millennium goals by 2015.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is racing to meet its Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015 as the government is getting poor marks in era-dicating extreme poverty and hunger and achieving universal education, latest MDG indicators showed.

Former Health Secretary Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan believes that there is still hope for the country to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) laid down by the United Nations (un) if the Aquino administration has the “political will.”

With only five years left into fulfilling the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations, the agency has identified eradication of extreme poverty as an “endangered” goal for the country since most Asian nations “made significant progress in combating [extreme] poverty” except for the Philippines, an official of the United Nations Information…

ECONOMISTS and former government officials are divided on the ways the Philippines can achieve its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets, a set of measurement that focuses on eight targets by 2015.

WHAT President-elect Benigno Aquino 3rd should make priorities are reducing poverty and improving maternal health since the Philippines has been overtaken by some African countries in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

AFRICAN countries are making better progress than the Philippines in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a report recently released by the Overseas Development Institute and the United Nations Millennium Campaign.

DESPITE calls from economists for the incoming administration to increase the country’s value-added tax (VAT) rate to 15 percent, the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) and Code: Reforms for Economic Development (CODE: RED) warned on Monday that this could cut consumption, increase poverty and endanger the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Now that elections are over, at least except for the formalities, it’s time to buckle down to work. The incoming national administration, if it is to make good on its lofty promises, must as early as now figure out which of the country’s numerous pressing problems it must tackle first, and most intensely.

No progress has been made by the Philippines in achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations since 2007, a high-ranking UN official said on Wednesday.

DESPITE the economic recovery, the world’s top two multilateral lenders said that achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for developing countries remains “worrisome.”

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The next Philippine president who will be elected on May 10 should prioritize job creation and education, a United Nations survey released on Thursday showed.

The interactive session was co-chaired by H.E. Ambassador Paul Badji, the permanent representative of Senegal to the United Nations, and H.E. Ambassador Carsten Staur, the permanent representative of Denmark to the United Nations. Messrs Badji and Staur have been appointed Co-Facilitators of the MDG+10 Review Process. One of their main tasks is to steer the…

The interactive session was co-chaired by H.E. Ambassador Paul Badji, the permanent representative of Senegal to the United Nations, and H.E. Ambassador Carsten Staur, the permanent representative of Denmark to the United Nations. Messrs Badji and Staur have been appointed Co-Facilitators of the MDG+10 Review Process. One of their main tasks is to steer the…

During the period of Mrs. Gloria Arroyo’s presidency, the state of Human Development in the Philippines has remained relatively stagnant as reflected by the country’s Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a figure calculated by research teams of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to help determine a particular nation’s quality of life for…

The Philippines’ existing stimulus package failed to further reduce poverty and boost economic growth in the short term, affecting the government’s capacity to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015, according to a joint report by the United Nations and Asian Development Bank (ADB).

In 2005, the UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura then provided an overview of what has been achieved between 1999 and 2005 when director of nations have closed rank with him in tackling regional problems specially in the eradication of extreme poverty in developing countries with the Education For All (EFA) projects. Focused on the six…

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has again qualified for financial support from the US Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) in 2010, according to Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo.

WASHINGTON – The Philippines was thwarted in its bid to get a multimillion-dollar grant from the US Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) for failing to meet performance benchmarks, particularly control of corruption, but was allowed to continue the process of developing a compact grant in 2010.

NEW YORK—All United Nations member-countries, including the Philippines, have agreed over the weekend to a new mechanism to monitor and implement a global treaty to fight corruption.

35% NOW LIVE BELOW POVERTY LINE MORE people slipped below the poverty line this year, making it almost impossible for the country to attain the Millennium Development Goal of reducing poverty by half by 2015, economists claimed.

WASHINGTON – The Philippines received a poor report card from the US Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) this year but so did everyone else, some faring worse than others.

THE United Nations raised concern that the series of catastrophes that hit the Philippines in the last two months will make it difficult for the nation to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that seek to address the global poverty and hunger situation.

In a dramatic reversal of longstanding US policy, Barack Obama stood before the UN General Assembly last month and declared that the US would return to active cooperation and support of the world organization and would do everything it could to bring about the attainment of the goals embodied in the Millennium Declaration. That was…

Jakarta – The 2015 deadline set by the United Nations Millennium Declaration to improve human development is fast approaching. Goals that 189 countries signed onto include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases, and ensuring environmental sustainability by…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government continues to lag behind its target to reduce poverty by the end of 2015, the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) said yesterday.

The country is expected to miss development targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of the United Nations (UN) mainly as a result of increasing poverty and corruption under the watch of President Arroyo.

THE Philippines is no longer on track to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015, with the series of natural disasters undermining development efforts, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and the United Nations (UN) said.