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The News-22 March 2009-The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned Pakistan that the current high rate of inflation threatens to erode gains made in poverty reduction in the recent past by pushing more people below the poverty line.

Bangladesh Budget Watch-24 June 2009-Bangladesh is unlikely to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals in a number of areas, development trends show.

UN News Centre-6 April 2009 – Nearly $65 billion worth of investment is required next year for population programmes to combat poverty, promote development and slash maternal death rates, according to the United Nations Commission on Population and Development.

Express in India, 10 July 2008-Given their increasing frequency, climate related disasters will result in 9 to 13 per cent of loss of GDP in India by 2010 and will be a key factor in preventing the economic growth in South Asia, a study has warned.

Kantipur Online - 19 June 2007 - In 2003, the government committed 'Education for All' as a Millennium Development Goal (MDG) stating that each child in the age group of 6 to 10 in Nepal would have access, by 2015, to free and good quality primary education irrespective of gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, and geographic location.

Medical News Today-1 July 2009-Doctors at a seminar at Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday said that at the current rate, it will be impossible for Pakistan to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to child mortality and maternal health by 2015, the International News reports.

The mindanaoexaminer-25 July 2008-They not only have forgotten their social agenda but have also lost their very purpose due to the rampant commercialization of the media 'business'. With this 'poverty of purpose', how can anyone expect this profession to help in eradicating poverty worldwide?

Daily News - 18 April 2007 - Sri Lanka is very well on its way to meet the UN Millennium Development - Goals despite recent developments and was able to reduce poverty to a considerable extent during the past decade, said Asian Development Bank (ADB) Country Director Richard Vokes.

The Dialy Star-6 May 2008-Speakers at a seminar yesterday said the country needs 10,000 more midwifery nurses to ensure safe motherhood and to reduce maternal and infant mortality across the country. The country observed the International Day of the Midwife as elsewhere across the globe with the theme 'Healthy Families: The Key to the Future.

Merinews - 3 September 2007 - National Social Watch Coalition in India, a network of civil society partners came out with a national report on India’s progress on MDGs. Civil society groups in the State of Madhya Pradesh came out with implementation audit report on seven out of eight MDGs on July 9, 2007.