Volume 44. Issues 5 - 6: Whose Goals Count? Lessons for Setting the Next Development Goals
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
Foreword: MDGs in Longer?Term Perspective – A Personal Reflection
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13) -
Whose Goals Count? Lessons for Setting the Next Development Goals
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)This IDS Bulletin brings together a set of articles about the lessons to be learned from the experience of the Millennium Development Goals, with a strong focus on Southern voices. The articles suggest that the MDG ... -
Do MDGs Matter? India's Development Trajectory in the 21st Century
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)Current discourse on post?2015 development goals needs to be situated in the context of the influence of MDGs in shaping national policies and programmes. In this article, India's development trajectory and its impacts are ... -
Lessons from the Implementation of MDGs in Kenya: Options for a Post?2015 Framework
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)Kenya is playing a significant role in the development of post?2015 MDG and SDG frameworks. This is compatible with the desire of the new leadership to be more proactive in the negotiation of international agreements. ... -
The MDGs, Empowerment and Accountability in Africa: Retrospect and Prospects
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)Although the recognition in the historic Millennium Declaration of 2000 of the centrality of accountable governance to the quest for the advancement of the wellbeing of humankind was not translated into one of the MDGs ... -
Moving Towards a Post?2015 Development Agenda – Lessons from Malawi: An Interview with Her Excellency Madam Joyce Banda, President of Malawi
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13) -
The MDG Enterprise: Experiences and Thoughts from Zambia
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)This article outlines Zambia's uneven progress towards attaining the MDGs. The central goal of cutting poverty in half by the end of 2015 appears to be definitely out of reach, whereas the goals of universalising primary ... -
Gender Equality in the Post?2015 Development Agenda: Lessons from the MDGs
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)This article addresses some central issues for the Post?2015 Development Agenda from a Southern perspective on gender equality and women's human rights. To answer this question, it first examines what lessons can be learned ... -
Nutrition in Sub?Saharan Africa: Setting the Stage for a Post?2015 Take?off
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)The MDGs have provided opportunities for addressing undernutrition in sub?Saharan Africa. The link between addressing undernutrition and human capital development has been a key message. The African Union (AU) now realises ... -
Reducing Poverty through Agricultural Development in China
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)China has made dramatic progress in large?scale poverty reduction over the past 30 years and has greatly contributed to the fulfilment of the MDG poverty goal. Sustaining agricultural growth is the key driving force for ... -
Post?2015 Development Agenda: Employment and Growth with Special Reference to India
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)The Post?2015 Development Agenda provides an opportunity to focus on employment. Productive employment is also crucial for the success of the MDGs. This article first discusses the impact of the MDG approach in India. It ... -
Broadening the Environmental Dimension in the Post?2015 Development Agenda
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)The MDGs recognise the nexus between human development and environmental sustainability through MDG 7. After more than a decade, however, the global progress on MDG 7 targets and indicators pales in comparison with progress ... -
Infrastructure Deficit, Financing Needs and the Post?2015 MDG Framework in Africa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)This article examines the infrastructure deficit and financing needs in Africa within the context of the Post?2015 Development Agenda. The article explains the extent of the infrastructure deficit across key categories and ... -
Using ‘Equitable and Sustainable Wellbeing’ to Build the Post?MDGs Framework
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Sep-13)During the last decade a multidimensional vision of progress of societies has been gathering increasing attention in developed and developing countries. A worldwide effort about the need to go ‘beyond GDP’ as a measure of ...