Targeting Development: Critical Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals - Rilegato

Black, Richard; White, Howard

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ISBN 10: 0415303761 ISBN 13: 9780415303767

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2003

Riassunto

The Millennium Development Goals accepted by the UN in 2000 are, along with the targets set by the OECD in 1996 the subject of this expertly written book. Is development achievable in the time frames given? How useful were the goals in the first place? How far have we come in solving the aching problems of the developing world? These questions and more and asked and answered.
This impressive collection featuring an array of respected contributors and a preface from Mark Malloch Brown of the UNDP, will be required reading among development economists and those interested in development studies more generally. Perhaps more importantly, the lessons learned from this book shall need to be understood and acted upon by policy makers at both national and international levels.

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L'autore:

Richard Black is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK. Howard White is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. He is also co-author of Program Aid and Development and Econometrics and Data Analysis for Developing Countries both of which are also published by Routledge.

Product Description:

A new global consensus has emerged that stresses that the objective of development is to end global poverty. This consensus is accompanied by a bold new set of targets - global poverty to be halved by 2015, along with universal primary education, the removal of gender disparities in schooling, universal access to reproductive health care, specific reductions in infant, child and maternal mortality rates, and a reversal in the loss of environmental resources. These 'International Development Targets' were first adopted by the OECD in 1996, and have been succeeded by the yet more widely endorsed 'Millennium Development Goals' following from the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. The aim of this book is to provide a critical appraisal of these targets, and the progress so far towards meeting them. The book consists of six introductory chapters on how and why the International Development Targets and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have become incorporated into development policy, and what their overall value is. Each chapter in the second part analyses whether current trends suggest the target can be reached. Contributors assess the main constraints that exist to achieving each of these target and the resulting implications for policy. This impressive collection featuring an array of respected contributors and a preface from Mark Malloch Brown of the UNDP, will be required reading among development economists and those interested in development studies more generally. Perhaps more importantly, the lessons learned from this book shall need to be understood and acted upon by policy makers at both national and international levels.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415303761
• ISBN 13: 9780415303767
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 388