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

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

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

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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.

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UN's millennium development goals.

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

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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".

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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.

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