The Commonwealth and the millennium development goals in Africa
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 95, Heft 385, S. 387-397
ISSN: 0035-8533
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 95, Heft 385, S. 387-397
ISSN: 0035-8533
World Affairs Online
In: The world today, Band 61, Heft 8-9, S. 10-11
ISSN: 0043-9134
World Affairs Online
In: Global policy: gp, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 66-77
ISSN: 1758-5899
AbstractThe Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were a set of measurable goals and targets agreed to by all United Nations (UN) member countries in 2001 or thereafter to achieve substantial socio‐economic improvement for all developing countries by 2015. The MDGs were defined by some as an 'international super‐norm' that made the eradication of extreme poverty a global policy and responsibility. In this article, we examine the broader historical and discursive context that facilitated this institutional emergence and draw on Rorty and Braithwaite to suggest that the MDGs can be considered an 'institution of hope.' The paper contextualises the political economy of despair that prevailed in the 1990s before outlining Rorty's critique of neo‐liberalism and post‐developmentalism and explaining the political value of hope as a collective motivating emotion. The paper then examines critiques of the MDGs before concluding that the MDGs performed a valuable function in reinvigorating global concern over poverty eradication, even if, in retrospect, the MDGs themselves remained only what Rorty referred to as a 'plausible narrative of progress.'
In: World Bank working paper, no. 9
"To reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), countries (or states and provinces within countries) have two options: increasing the inputs used to "produce" the outcomes measured by the MDGs, or increasing the efficiency with which inputs are used. This study looks at whether improvements in efficiency could bring gains in outcomes." "Two chapters use world panel data to analyze country level efficiency in improving education, health, and GDP (and thereby poverty) indicators. Two other chapters use province and state level data to analyze within-country efficiency in Argentina and Mexico for improving education and health outcomes. Together, the four chapters suggest that apart from increasing inputs, it is necessary to improve efficiency in order to reach the MDGs. While this conclusion is hardly surprising, the analysis helps to quantify how much progress could be achieved through better efficiency, and to some extent, how efficiency itself could be improved."--Jacket
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 26-35
In: Africa research bulletin. Political, social and cultural series, Band 44, Heft 8, S. 17215A
ISSN: 0001-9844
In: Africa research bulletin. Political, social and cultural series, Band 44, Heft 8
ISSN: 1467-825X
In: Development: journal of the Society for International Development (SID), Band 48, Heft 1, S. 1-4
ISSN: 1461-7072
In: Journal of human development, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 353-378
ISSN: 1469-9516
In: Journal of human development and capabilities: a multi-disciplinary journal for people-centered development, Band 15, Heft 2-3, S. 261-274
ISSN: 1945-2837
In: Development Centre Studies; Can we still Achieve the Millennium Development Goals?, S. 59-65
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
"The Millennium Development Goals and the Politics of Global Poverty" published on by Oxford University Press.