[RED DEMOCRATICA] What comes after the Millennium Development Goals?

 

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	February 4, 2013 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate What comes after the Millennium Development Goals? The high-level panel of the United Nations tasked with devising a successor to the Millennium Development Goals has concluded meetings with civil society groups in Monrovia, Liberia. Bill Gates suggests that the current MDGs should simply be expanded. "[M]any of the potential new goals don't have unanimous support, and adding many new goals, or goals that are not easily measurable, may sap momentum," Gates said in a letter. 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