1st Edition

The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities

Edited By Nana Poku, Jim Whitman Copyright 2014
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword  1. Introduction: The Millennium Development Goals: challenges, prospects and opportunities  2. If not the Millennium Development Goals, then what?  3. The Millennium Development Goals: back to the future?  4. Achieving the MDGs and Ensuring Debt Sustainability  5. Millennium Development Goal 1: poverty, hunger and decent work in Southeast Asia  6. The ‘Other Diseases’ of the Millennium Development Goals: rhetoric and reality of free drug distribution to cure the poor’s parasites  7. Food Security Politics and the Millennium Development Goals  8. The ‘AIDS and MDGs’ Approach: what is it, why does it matter, and how do we take it forward?  9. The Idea of Partnership within the Millennium Development Goals: context, instrumentality and the normative demands of partnership  10. The Millennium Development Goals and Development after 2015

Biography

Nana Poku is Visiting Professor of African Politics at University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he was Senior Policy Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa and Executive Director of the UN Secretary-General's Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa.

Jim Whitman is Professor of Global Governance in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. He is the general editor of the Palgrave Global Issues series. His latest books are The Fundamentals of Global Governance (2009); as editor, Global Governance (2009); and as editor with Sarah Perrigo, The Geneva Conventions Under Assault (2010).