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Nearly halfway to the target of 2015 --- a critical
milestone when global poverty should be halved through an
ambitious programme expressed as the eight Millenium Development
Goals (MDGs), Africa's list of problems continues to spiral
while answers to addressing poverty and delivering services
effectively to the poor continue to elude us. Through insightful
reporting, commentary and opinion from Angola, Namibia, Mauritius
to Zimbabwe and other countries in southern Africa, IPS Africa
will sharpen its coverage of the broad framework of MDGs and
other poverty alleviation and development targets, including
NEPAD and SADC's Regional Indicative Strategic Development
Plan.
This page includes news and coverage, which is part of a project
funded by the Southern Africa Trust (SAT). The contents of this news coverage, including any funded by the SAT , are the sole responsibility of IPS and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of SAT.
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Four years ago, Malawi was in bad shape. The economy was shackled by international and domestic debt, with inflation peaking at 15.4 percent in 2005. Corruption was widespread. Food security was a major problem: the 2005/2005 harvest was bad, and in the following year, up to 5 million Malawians -- 40 percent of the population -- received food and other aid.
Changing Lives
Rather than debating the inadequacies of the MDGs, non-governmental organisations should use the space to bring about people-centred development, says Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive of ActionAid
The Millennium Development Goals are doomed because they rest on faulty assumptions, writes Dot Keet, a fellow of the Transnational Institute and research associate of the Alternative Information and Development Centre based in South Africa
Economic growth without democracy leads to greater degrees of inequalities, argues Dr Abdalla Hamdok, Director for Africa and the Middle East at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA). He is based in Tshwane, South Africa. 
By Karanja Mbugua
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Social
Inequality is Not Tackled 
MDGs? 
get
away with murder-literally