Christi van der Westhuizen
GENEVA, Jun 30 2007 (IPS) – Only about 30 percent of Mozambicans think that their quality of life has improved since 2000, the year when the international community agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while about 42 percent believe life has not changed.
This emerged in a study conducted by the Mozambique Non-Governmental Organisations Survey Consortium, a group of Mozambican non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which decided to investigate public perceptions of development as defined by the MDGs.
The NGOs include the Mozambican Debt Group and G20, an alliance of 20 organisations involved in the fight against poverty. They were supported by the North-South Institute, a Canada-based development research body.
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