BUSINESS

Lofty goals elusive

Asia focus, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 11/05/2020

» At the close of the last millennium, leaders from around the globe gathered at the United Nations to endorse the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- an agenda to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. They agreed to achieve the eight goals by 2015.