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Year 2009

News Articles - 2009

09-Dec-2009 - New national UNV volunteers support World Aids Day

07-Dec-2009 - National UNV volunteers raise awareness on environment

06-Dec-2009 - Guyana celebrates International Volunteer Day

04-Dec-2009 - Guyana recruits the largest and youngest number of NUNV in Latin America and the Caribbean

04-Dec-2009 - UN launches volunteer programme

04-Dec-2009 - UNDP to help youths become community change agents

01-Dec-2009 - Sustain gains made in HIV fight

01-Nov-2009 - Elections coverage focus of GECOM / UNDP training for journalists

08-Oct-2009 - PAHO host 3-day workshop on Childhood Illnesses

06-Oct-2009 - UN Development Report offers hope amidst challenges - Minister Rogrigues-Birkett

04-Aug-2009 - Bilateral co-operation crucial to health security – Health Minister

26-Aug-2009 - 23 youths on heavy duty equipment operator training at GuySuCo

11-Jul-2009 - UNFPA/MOH partnership gears at combating maternal mortality

29-Jul-2009 - 13,000 living with HIV in Guyana – UNICEF report

03-Jun-2009 - Kuru Kururu farmers starting apiary-orchard project

19-May-2009 - UNDP representative assures GECOM Chairman of elections support

14-Apr-2009 - Region Two communities to benefit from poverty alleviation project

26-Mar-2009 - Donor partners reaffirm climate change help

Extract

"The Guyana Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Progress Report 2011 is a key monitoring instrument to access various socio-economic policies. The overall aim of the Report is to track and analyse the country's progress towards the achievement of the MDGs, but on a wider level, it serves as a report on national efforts to reduce poverty. The findings of the Report are expected to influence Government processes, decision-making and resource mobilization and allocation efforts. Furthermore, the key findings as a means to both enlighten and heighten development discussions among all national stakeholders, including Guyana development partners."

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Overview

“The advantage of economic growth is not that wealth increases happiness, but that it increases the range of human choice.”1 These words were written in 1955 by Arthur Lewis, a Caribbean scholar and Nobel laureate in economics who made an important contribution to the development debate and development policy in the Caribbean and elsewhere. It is a profoundly people-centred approach to economic growth that prefigured the later debates on human development.

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