Did The Millennium Development Goals Work

Author : Besada, Hany,McMillan Polonenko, Leah
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447335719

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Did the Millennium Development Goals Work? by Besada, Hany,McMillan Polonenko, Leah Pdf

With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) behind us, this book asks did they work? And what happens next? Arguing that to effectively look forward, we must first look back, the editors of this insightful book gather leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions to provide an in-depth exploration of the MDG project and its impact. Contributors use region-specific case studies to explore the effectiveness of the MDGs in addressing the root causes of poverty, including resource geographies, early childhood development and education, women’s rights and disability rights as well as the impact of the global financial crisis and Arab Spring on MDG attainment. Providing a critical assessment that seeks to inform future policy decisions, the book will be valuable to those working in the development community as well as to academics and students of international development, international relations and development economics.

Author : Besada, Hany,McMillan Polonenko, Leah
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447335726

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Did the Millennium Development Goals Work? by Besada, Hany,McMillan Polonenko, Leah Pdf

With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) behind us, this book asks did they work? And what happens next? Arguing that to effectively look forward, we must first look back, the editors of this insightful book gather leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions to provide an in-depth exploration of the MDG project and its impact. Contributors use region-specific case studies to explore the effectiveness of the MDGs in addressing the root causes of poverty, including resource geographies, early childhood development and education, women’s rights and disability rights as well as the impact of the global financial crisis and Arab Spring on MDG attainment. Providing a critical assessment that seeks to inform future policy decisions, the book will be valuable to those working in the development community as well as to academics and students of international development, international relations and development economics.

Author : Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315414232

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Millennium Development Goals by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Pdf

Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically evaluates the MDG experience from the capabilities and human rights perspectives, and questions the use of quantitative targets as an instrument of global governance. It provides an account of their origins, trajectory and influence in shaping the policy agenda, and ideas about international development during the first 15 years of the 21st century. The chapters explore: • whether the goals are adequate as benchmarks for the transformative vision of the Millennium Declaration; • how the goals came to be formulated the way they were, drawing on interviews with key actors who were involved in the process; • how the goals exercised influence through framing to shape policy agendas on the part of both developing countries and the international community; • the political economy that drove the formulation of the goals and their consequences on the agendas of the South and the North; • the effects of quantification and indicators on ideas and action; and • the lessons to be drawn for using numeric goals to promote global priorities. Representing a significant body of work on the MDGs in its multiple dimensions, compiled here for the first time as a single collection that tells the whole definitive story, this book provides a comprehensive resource. It will be of great interest to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of development, human rights, international political economy, and governance by numeric indicators.

Author : Hany Besada,Leah McMillan Polonenko,Manmohan Agarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 1447335740

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Did the Millennium Development Goals Work? by Hany Besada,Leah McMillan Polonenko,Manmohan Agarwal Pdf

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations were deliberately ambitious, and they have been the subject of much debate. Now, with the 2015 target date for many of the goals having passed, it is time to assess the goals and attempt to determine whether they were effective. Gathering leading scholars from a range of backgrounds and regions, this book offers an in-depth exploration of that question, with the aim of better understanding the effects of the MDGs and learning from them for future policy decisions. It examines the impact of the MDGs on countries and regions such as Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, and discusses a range of topics including anti-poverty transfer programmes, sustainable development, and the role of women in economic development.

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs,The UN Millennium Project
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317705406

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UN Millennium Development Library: Investing in Development by Jeffrey D. Sachs,The UN Millennium Project Pdf

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector. Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical strategies and approaches to financing the,, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Author : Rorden Wilkinson,David Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136251061

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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 : Kobena T. Hanson,Korbla P. Puplampu,Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : United Nations. Department of Public Information,United Nations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United Nations
ISBN : OCLC:123382688

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Basic Facts about the United Nations by United Nations. Department of Public Information,United Nations Pdf

Author : Adam Wagstaff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821357670

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The Millennium Development Goals for Health by Adam Wagstaff Pdf

Annotation Provides information on progress and trends, including poornonpoor disparities; health systems reform as a means of laying building blocks for the efficient and equitable delivery of effective interventions; the financing of health spending through domestic resources and aid; and improving the effectiveness of development assistance in health. Linking the health Millennium Development Goals? agenda with the broader poverty-reduction agenda, this book is a valuable resource for policymakers in developing countries and development practitioners working in the health, nutrition, and population sector as well as students and scholars of public health.

Author : Naila Kabeer
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0850927528

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Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals by Naila Kabeer Pdf

This book explores the issue of gender inequality through the lens of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first one of halving world poverty by 2015.

Author : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132086906

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Claiming the Millennium Development Goals by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pdf

This publication sets out a human rights approach to the MDGs,... primarily to outline a clean analysis for the development sector, indentifying entry points at the policy level as well as for country-level programming and advocacy." -- P. vii.

Author : Awortwi, Nicholas,Musahara, Herman
Publisher : OSSREA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789994455829

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

This book brings together results of studies on progresses and challenges in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Lesotho, Kenya, Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. The authors focus on selected goals as cases; and the book presents resulting lessons that can inform the post-2015 development agenda. The studies are against the background that 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 realise this declaration, the UN established eight 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 years lost 2000, 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.

Author : Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315414249

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Millennium Development Goals by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Pdf

Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically evaluates the MDG experience from the capabilities and human rights perspectives, and questions the use of quantitative targets as an instrument of global governance. It provides an account of their origins, trajectory and influence in shaping the policy agenda, and ideas about international development during the first 15 years of the 21st century. The chapters explore: • whether the goals are adequate as benchmarks for the transformative vision of the Millennium Declaration; • how the goals came to be formulated the way they were, drawing on interviews with key actors who were involved in the process; • how the goals exercised influence through framing to shape policy agendas on the part of both developing countries and the international community; • the political economy that drove the formulation of the goals and their consequences on the agendas of the South and the North; • the effects of quantification and indicators on ideas and action; and • the lessons to be drawn for using numeric goals to promote global priorities. Representing a significant body of work on the MDGs in its multiple dimensions, compiled here for the first time as a single collection that tells the whole definitive story, this book provides a comprehensive resource. It will be of great interest to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of development, human rights, international political economy, and governance by numeric indicators.

Author : Malcolm Langford,Andrew Sumner,Alicia Ely Yamin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107031913

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Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights by Malcolm Langford,Andrew Sumner,Alicia Ely Yamin Pdf

This volume sets out to disentangle the debate about the Millennium Development goals in theory and practice.

Author : Nana Poku,Jim Whitman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351542449

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The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities by Nana Poku,Jim Whitman Pdf

As the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than snapshot fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned. But the performance and outlook for the MDGs can neither be reduced to the sum of its eight goals, nor be divorced from international dynamics - the hard interests of states and other actors, and the global dynamics that impact on both. For that reason, this volume balances contextual analysis, the role of formative and constraining forces, the importance of normative considerations and illuminating case studies to deliver a study of the MDGs which has depth and nuance as well as breadth. Poised between judging the recent performance and the future promise of the MDGs, this book is substantial, provocative and timely.This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.