1st Edition

The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond Global Development after 2015

Edited By Rorden Wilkinson, David Hulme Copyright 2012
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction Moving from MDGs to GDGs: Development Imperatives beyond 2015 David Hulme and Rorden Wilkinson  Part 1: Global Context  1. Millennium Development Goals: Milestones on a long road Margaret Joan Anstee  2. Recapturing the Narrative of International Development Sakiko Fukuda Parr  3. From the Millennium to Global Development Goals Ramesh Thakur  4. Women and the MDGs: Too Little, too Late, too Gendered Sophie Harman  5. MDGs meet Religion: Past, Present, and Future Katherine Marshall  6. ECOSOC and the MDGs: What can be done? Thomas G. Weiss  Part 2: Focus on Africa  7. Lessons to be Learned from the Challenges to Achieving the MDGs in Africa Craig N. Murphy  8. Africa and the MDGs: Challenges and Priorities David Hulme and Admos Chimhowu  9. Challenges to the Achievement of the MDGs in Africa Frances Stewart  10. Global Development Goals and the International HIV Response: A Chance for Renewal Ilaria Regondi and Alan Whiteside  11. Combating Poverty in Africa: 2015 and Beyond Yusuf Bangura  12. Taking Africa beyond the MDGs: The Role of Higher Education in Development H. Russel Botman

Biography

Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of Global Political Economy and Head-elect Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK.

David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies, Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) and Head of the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) at the University of Manchester.