The titles of these songs will be inspired by the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

BBC: NEWS | Africa | Africa stars join for poverty song

The UN's millennium development goals, like most other aid declarations, reflect the old way of doing aid.

ECONOMIST: Wealth, poverty and fragile states

And though it often fails to meet its public-service agreements, these are unfeasibly ambitious targets linked to the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

ECONOMIST: Foreign aid in a recession

The IMechE says this is the opening salvo in the debate about re-defining the UN's Millennium Development goals, which are up for review in 2015.

BBC: Harrabin's Notes: Population overload?

UN's millennium development goals.

ECONOMIST: London under attack

's periodic warnings of dire, impending shortages of water belie its actions, which not only exacerbate water shortages and are harmful to health, but will also thwart the organization's own overblown Millennium Development Goals.

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According to two China's 2008 reports, the Millennium Development Goals Report and the Report on the Status of China's Food Security, the country still has more than 91 million people (7.3% of total national population) who are likely to experience food insecurity and lack of nutrition.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

In fact, the persistence of child marriage has hindered Africa's efforts to achieve six of the eight Millennium Development Goals.

CNN: Is this the beginning of the end of child marriage?

Mr Mitchell told the BBC's Politics Show that if the government were to meet its eight Millennium development goals - including eradicating extreme hunger and reduce child mortality - it would have to "operate where poverty is greatest".

BBC: Who, What, Why: Why does the UK give aid to India?

He said although the Millennium Development Goals - on relieving poverty and disease in the world's poorest nations - concentrated on advances in primary education, that would not be enough to create the skills necessary to transform economies.

BBC: Davos 2012: Africa leaders urge co-operation