Achieving The Millennium Development Goals In Africa

Author : Nicholas Awortwi,Herman Musahara
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789994455904

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Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals by Nicholas Awortwi,Herman Musahara Pdf

In September 2000, world leaders from 189 countries, including 147 Heads of State, gathered at the United Nations General Assembly to consider the challenges of the new millennium. They adopted the Millennium Declaration, which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization (UN 2000 (A/RES/55/2)). The leaders pledged to work towards ensuring that conditions of extreme poverty are eradicated wherever they existed. To actualise this declaration, the UN established eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The goals were broken down into 18 concrete targets and 48 indicators to track progresses in implementation. For the past 14 years thereafter, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been striving to achieve the goals. So far, some have achieved some of the goals, and the results toward the rest of the goals are also by and large positive, though off-target. This book brings together results of studies on progresses and challenges in the implementation of the MDGs in Lesotho, Kenya, Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. The authors focus on selected goals as cases. The book also presents lessons that can inform the post-2015 development agenda.

Author : F. O. C. Nwonwu,Francis Nwonwu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0798302127

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Millennium Development Goals by F. O. C. Nwonwu,Francis Nwonwu Pdf

This book reviews the progress, prospects and challenges of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa. Each chapter corresponds with one of the eight goals of the Millennium Declaration. The introduction sets the stage for the discourse contained in the main text while the conclusion forms an opinion from the findings and prescribes the way forward. The goals, in sequence, include: bull; Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger bull; Achieve universal primary education bull; Promote gender equality and empower women bull; Reduce child mortality bull; Improve maternal health bull; Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases bull; Ensure environmental sustainability bull; Develop a global partnership for development. While it is apparent that most North African countries are on track to achieve the above goals by 2015, few countries in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to succeed in this. As well as reviewing progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals, the authors also analyse the obstacles and challenges that stand in the way of achieving the goals. These include internal, economic and cultural obstacles as well as external and environmental factors such as reductions in funding, problems in accessing global markets and the implications for Africa of climate change.

Author : Raj Bardouille,Deborah Bryceson,Muna Ndalo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443815291

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Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals by Raj Bardouille,Deborah Bryceson,Muna Ndalo Pdf

Transport is an essential service that must contribute to national development objectives in health, education, agriculture and other sectors in guiding sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty. Developing policies aimed at providing safe, reliable and affordable transport infrastructure and services can and will make a substantial and sustainable contribution to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, improving health care and reducing HIV/AIDS. Although transport is identified as a priority in poverty reduction strategies, it has not generally been adequately addressed. Global responses tend to focus on rural transport infrastructure—principally roads—with little attention given to sub-sectors such as rivers, lakes, and railroads; and important geographical and econological differences are ignored. The needs of the urban poor have been weakly addressed, as have the access and mobility needs of women, the disabled and other disadvantaged groups, while strategies for adapting transport to agricultural production/distribution or social services (e.g. health and education) have not been adequately developed. A systematic approach to the development of sound, comprehensive transport sector programs that provide clear guidance on what is to be done is much needed. This volume—the product of an expert workshop held at Cornell University’s Institute for African Development in May, 2007—provides accounts of an array of African operational spaces in which transport is relevant to the Millennium Development Goals. It addresses many heretofore ignored dimesions of transport—mobility issues of the urban poor, of women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services. It provides an alignment of transport with the MDGs in what proves to be fertile ground for research with important messages for policy makers and consequences for policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa by Anonim Pdf

"The authors present an integrated macroeconomic approach to monitoring progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the heart of their approach is a macroeconomic model that captures key linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health), the supply side, and poverty. The model is linked through cross-section regressions to indicators of malnutrition, infant mortality, life expectancy, and access to safe water. A composite MDG indicator is also calculated. The functioning of the framework is illustrated by simulating the impact of an increase in aid and a debt write-off for Niger at the MDG horizon of 2015, under alternative assumptions about the degree of efficiency of public investment. The authors' approach can serve as the building block of Strategy Papers for Human Development (SPAHD), a more encompassing concept than the current "Poverty Reduction" Strategy Papers."

Author : Charles Mutasa,Mark Paterson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442256279

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Africa and the Millennium Development Goals by Charles Mutasa,Mark Paterson Pdf

This unique work by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, tracks the progress Africa has made in achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 2000. The chapters are organized around the larger themes of political economy, structural issues, sustainable goals, and human development goals. Together they provide a unique assessment from experts on the ground of whether the goals were a success and what remains to be done to achieve sustainable economic and human development in Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : LCCN:2010306271

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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. McGillivray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230594937

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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by M. McGillivray Pdf

This book provides analytical insights into if and how the targets adopted by the international community are likely to be achieved. A key feature of the analysis is the recognition that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analysing the MDGs but also devising strategies.

Author : Ahmed Rhazaoui,Luc-Joël Grégoire,Soraya Mellali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122915171

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Africa and the Millennium Development Goals by Ahmed Rhazaoui,Luc-Joël Grégoire,Soraya Mellali Pdf

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) constitute an ambitious agenda to significantly improve the human condition. The goals set clear targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. Realizing the Millennium Development Goals in the years ahead will be a particularly challenging task in sub-Saharan Africa, in light of weak and often faltering macroeconomic performance, vulnerability to negative climatic shocks, fertility rates and population growth that outpace those of other regions, and a devastating combination of poverty, continued civil conflict, and the effects of HIV/AIDS. This book provides empirical estimates of current progress in African countries and reviews the various obstacles standing in the way, the roles and responsibilities of national actors and their partners, and the advocacy, monitoring, and evaluation aspects of MDG implementation. The authors emphasize the need for changes in public policy and for action in both the developed and developing countries.

Author : Kobena T. Hanson,Korbla P. Puplampu,Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351855013

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From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals by Kobena T. Hanson,Korbla P. Puplampu,Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

Millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa’s policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media landscape, to understand and better respond or negotiate the evolving development environment of the 21st century. In this collection of nuanced essays, the contributors interrogate the relationship between the MDGs and SDGs in key areas of African development to enhance our understanding and knowledge of the evolving nature of development. They address issues of governance, agriculture, south-south cooperation in a context of foreign aid, natural resource governance and sustainable development, export diversification and economic growth as well as emerging topics such as the internet of things or the sharing economy, climate change, conflict and non-traditional security. The varied, yet interlinked foci present a holistic overview of Africa’s development aspirations, and ability to transform the SDGs’ universal aspirations into local realities. This book will be of use to academics and students in Development Studies, Contemporary African Studies, Political Science, Policy Studies and Geography, and should also appeal to policy makers and development practitioners.

Author : MDG Africa Steering Group
Publisher : UN
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : OSU:32435080406317

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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa by MDG Africa Steering Group Pdf

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and other internationally agreed development goals in Africa holds the promise of saving millions of lives, ending the scourge of hunger and malnutrition, and ensuring that Africa's children are empowered through education and good health to lead productive lives. The MDG Africa Steering group presents recommendations in view to achieving the MDG and laying the foundation for robust economic growth in Africa. The evidence surveyed by the group demonstrates that such recommendations will produce substantial and verifiable results if implemented by world leaders as the second half of the MDG period begins.

Author : Rorden Wilkinson,David Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136251078

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The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond by Rorden Wilkinson,David Hulme Pdf

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to reductions in poverty and improvements in the human condition in many parts of the world since their "invention" in 2000 and 2001. It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all the previous days of the twenty-first century, almost one billion people will go hungry. Debates about whether the MDGs have made a positive contribution to poverty eradication and/or whether they have achieved as much as they should have done are becoming more frequent as 2015 and the "end of the MDGs" approaches. This book highlights that active debate about what the MDGs have achieved and what that means for the crafting of a post-2015 international framework for action, must become a priority. The work begins by examining the global context of the goals from a variety of perspectives, and moves on to focus on the region that continues to be the most impoverished and which looks likely to fall short of meeting many of the MDGs: Africa. Presenting both a broad overview of the issues and drawing together prestigious scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields, this work provides a significant contribution to debates surrounding both global poverty and the success and future of the MDGs.

Author : Pierre-Richard Agenor,Nihal Bayraktar,Emmanuel Pinto Moreira,Karim El Aynaoui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1375324657

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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa by Pierre-Richard Agenor,Nihal Bayraktar,Emmanuel Pinto Moreira,Karim El Aynaoui Pdf

This paper presents an integrated macroeconomic approach to monitoring progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the heart of our approach is a macro model that captures key linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health), the supply side, and poverty. The model is linked through cross-section regressions to indicators of malnutrition, infant mortality, life expectancy, and access to safe water. A composite MDG Indicator is also calculated. The functioning of our framework is illustrated by simulating the impact of an increase in aid and a debt write-off for Niger at the MDG horizon of 2015, under alternative assumptions about the degree of efficiency of public investment. Our approach can serve as the building block of Strategy Papers for Human Development (SPAHD), a more encompassing concept than the current "Poverty Reduction" Strategy Papers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : 999448270X

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Review of the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nathan Andrews,Nene Ernest Khalema,N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319161662

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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect by Nathan Andrews,Nene Ernest Khalema,N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba Pdf

This volume examines the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Africa’s development post-2015. It assesses the current state of the MDGs in Africa by outlining the successes, gaps and failures of the state goals, including lessons learned. A unique feature of the book is the exposition on post-MDG’s agenda for Africa’s development. Chapters on poverty, south-south partnership, aid, gender, empowerment, health as well as governance and development explore what feasible alternative lie ahead for Africa beyond the expiry date of the MDGs.

Author : Kararach, George,Besada, Hany
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447328575

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Development in Africa by Kararach, George,Besada, Hany Pdf

Since 2000, countries across Africa have maintained over a decade of unprecedented economic expansion in a phenomena known as ‘Africa rising’. However, despite pockets of strong economic growth, Africa still faces major development challenges. In this important book the contributors argue that Africa as a continent must work on securing social and political stability and build effective economic governance to ensure the development of a society that is socially, economically and politically inclusive. Looking beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the contributors highlight what they consider to be the 12 major public policy conversations of the continent post-2015, from the legacy of African leadership, to the ‘youth bulge’ (and resulting unemployment) and climate change. The volume presents policy makers, academics and students with a chance to take a fresh look at urgent emerging challenges in post-MDG African development.