Poverty And The Millennium Development Goals

Author : Alberto Cimadamore,Gabriele Koehler,Thomas Pogge
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783606214

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Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals by Alberto Cimadamore,Gabriele Koehler,Thomas Pogge Pdf

As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and policies, it exposes the structurally flawed and misleading measurements of poverty and hunger on which these efforts have been based, and which have led official sources to routinely underestimate the scale of world poverty even as the global distribution of wealth becomes ever more imbalanced.

Author : Fantu Cheru,Colin Bradford Jr.
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848137356

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The Millennium Development Goals by Fantu Cheru,Colin Bradford Jr. Pdf

This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015. If the MDGs to halve global poverty and significantly improve the conditions of life of the world's poor are to be met on schedule, putting in place the requisite funding is an essential component. The economists in this volume from WIDER, UNDP, and other leading institutions have contributed their analyses as part of the Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy - a high-level multi-stakeholder initiative to develop new approaches to global problem-solving, a global economic agenda and human security. Key resource flows examined include ODA, foreign direct investment, remittances by migrants, commodity export prices, and new ideas to secure sustainable debt relief, including SDRs, debt cancellation, revaluation of IMF gold reserves, debt arbitration, and other proposals. The statistically rich analyses are presented in the context of the complicated trends in global inequality, the incidence of poverty, and the impacts of globalisation. The editors conclude with a thought-provoking set of ideas about the political requirements for effective global economic governance aimed at achieving the MDGs that the world community set itself at the start of the new millennium. The empirical data in this volume and survey of key new ideas for resource mobilisation will be invaluable to all those concerned with global economic governance, including scholars, diplomats, NGO lobbyists, and students studying development economics.

Author : Naila Kabeer
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Alberto Cimadamore,Gabriele Koehler,Thomas Pogge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783606207

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Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals by Alberto Cimadamore,Gabriele Koehler,Thomas Pogge Pdf

As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and policies, it exposes the structurally flawed and misleading measurements of poverty and hunger on which these efforts have been based, and which have led official sources to routinely underestimate the scale of world poverty even as the global distribution of wealth becomes ever more imbalanced.

Author : J. Brinkerhoff,S. Smith,H. Teegen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230604933

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NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals by J. Brinkerhoff,S. Smith,H. Teegen Pdf

This book examines general Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) roles and comparative advantages in the broad fight to end global poverty, as well as roles and opportunities specific to particular Millennium Development Goals sectors.

Author : Besada, Hany,McMillan Polonenko, Leah
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Jeffrey D. Sachs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780143036586

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The End of Poverty by Jeffrey D. Sachs Pdf

"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world's poorest countries. Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations' target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.

Author : Magdalena Zettl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656571131

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Coordinating National Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the Millennium Development Goals by Magdalena Zettl Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 1.4, , language: English, abstract: Poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) are claimed to be the 'crucial link' between the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on the global level and poverty reduction and growth strategies on the nation level as PRSPs incorporate more and more MDG goals and indicators. Ethiopia, a low-income country in Sub-Saharan Africa, is used as a case study as it has not only made significant advancements in terms of achieving the MDG goals since 2000 but has also made extensive use of PRSPs. Ethiopia has already issued its third generation of PRSPs (2002; 2006; 20011), including an interim PRSP in 2000. The essay analyzes how well MDG 2 'Primary Universal Education' and MDG 5 'Maternal Health' have been absorbed into Ethiopia's PRSPs. Findings confirm that PRSPs are a crucial means to implement MDGs within national policies and programs. Moreover, the study hints to how different processes of MDG incorporation into PRSPs influence the achievement of the respective MDGs on the national level. PRSPs have to be given considerable importance in the post- 2015 agenda; however, a revision of PRSPs is urgently needed to compensate PRSP's criticism and its lack in adhering to some of its most crucial principles, which play a significant role in the post 2015 agenda.

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs,The UN Millennium Project
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Matthew Clarke
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1600218784

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Education for the End of Poverty by Matthew Clarke Pdf

This book provides important information regarding the Millennium Development Goals, adopted unanimously by the United Nations in 2000, setting explicit targets in terms of achieving progress in the developing world. This volume provides both a theoretical overview of the role of education in development and also illustrates this with various case studies (based on work of non-government organisations and other donors) in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors include a mix of development practitioners as well as academics engaged in research in this field. Thus, the theory is illustrated and extrapolated by case studies focussing on community development interventions.

Author : Rob A. Swinkels,Carrie Turk
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Desarrollo economico - Vietnam
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Strategic Planning for Poverty Reduction in Vietnam by Rob A. Swinkels,Carrie Turk Pdf

This paper discusses the progress that Vietnam has made toward meeting a core set of development goals that the government recently adopted as part of its Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (CPRGS). These goals are strongly related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but are adapted and expanded to reflect Vietnam's national challenges and the government's ambitious development plans. For each Vietnam Development Goal, the authors describe recent trends in relation to the trajectories implied by the MDGs, outline the intermediate targets identified by the government, and discuss the challenges involved in meeting these. Relative to other countries of similar per capita expenditures, Vietnam has made rapid progress in a number of key areas. Poverty has halved over the 1990s, enrollment rates in primary education have risen to 91 percent (although there is a quality problem), indicators of gender equity have been strengthened, child mortality has been reduced, maternal health has improved, and real progress has been made in combating malaria and other communicable diseases. In contrast, Vietnam scores worse than other comparable countries in the areas of child malnutrition, access to clean water, and combating HIV/AIDS. A number of important crosscutting issues emerge from this analysis that need to be addressed. One such challenge is improving equity, both in terms of ensuring that the benefits of growth are distributed evenly across the population and in terms of access to public services. This will involve addressing the affordability of education and curative health care for poor households. Improvements in public expenditure planning are needed to align resources better to stated desired outcomes and to link nationally-defined targets to subnational planning and budgeting processes. There is also a need to address capacity and data gaps which will be crucial for effective monitoring. This paper--a product of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to help governments move toward outcome-based planning for poverty reduction.

Author : Rorden Wilkinson,David Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Katarzyna Cichos,Amanda Lange Salvia
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787696259

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SDG1 - No Poverty by Katarzyna Cichos,Amanda Lange Salvia Pdf

This work provides a new look at global problems of poverty and presents applicable solutions to show that the global community can eliminate poverty today and achieve its global promise - Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1).

Author : Awortwi, Nicholas,Musahara, Herman
Publisher : OSSREA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0203345967

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Targeting Development by Anonim Pdf