The Political Economy of the MDGs: Retrospect and Prospect for the World's Biggest Promise

Hulme, David; Scott, James

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“…The approach contended that in order to lift people out of poverty, it was necessary to improve, among other things, their educational, health and nutritional capabilities and economic opportunities. The annual Human Development Reports (HDRs) produced by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the successive UN summits in the 1990s that explicitly addressed human development issues provided the fundamental content of the MDGs (Hulme, 2010;Hulme and Scott, 2010).…”

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“…The then UN Secretary General saw the change of millennium as an opportunity to address politically sensitive issues like poverty. What followed was an intensive lobbying process in which aid agencies, donor governments and governments of developing countries, as well as civil-society organisations, tried to shape the contents of the Millennium Assembly and incorporate those issues that they valued most into a final Millennium Declaration (Hulme, 2009;Hulme and Scott, 2010). This led to the creation of the MDGs, first outlined by the UN Secretary General's report We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century (Annan, 2000); then discussed by the 189 UN member states at the UN Millennium Summit on 8 September 2000; and finally approved as the Millennium Declaration in 2001.…”

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Asset Accumulation: An Alternative Approach to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Stein

Horn

2012

Development Policy Review

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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be achieved by 2015, owing to conceptual flaws in their design as well as the structural and political constraints faced during implementation at the country level. While criticism of the MDGs is widespread, innovative ideas on addressing these operational challenges are still scanty. By reviewing a number of experiences, including those of the Foundation for the Promotion of Local Development (PRODEL) in Nicaragua and the Ministry of Cities in Brazil, this article highlights the importance of incorporating an asset‐accumulation perspective into MDG‐related policies and programmes as a way of generating an enabling environment that opens up new opportunities for poverty reduction in the cities of low‐ and middle‐low‐income countries.

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Asset Accumulation: An Alternative Approach to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Stein

Horn

2012

Development Policy Review

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“…At a World Bank meeting in March 2001, it was agreed that the Declaration and the goals would be merged and that the UN would drive the new set of goals while the Bretton Woods institutions (World Bank and International Monetary Fund) pursued them through their Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). 60 The set of eight MDGs, together with 18 targets and 48 indicators, were first introduced to the UNGA in an Annex to a 2001 Secretary-General report. 61 The MDGs reflected a normative shift in the objectives of international development, from narrowly focused on economic growth to making poverty eradication and human well-being the central objectives for development.…”

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Follow‐up and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals: Alignment vs. Internalization

Persson¹,

Weitz²,

Nilsson³

2016

Rev Euro Comp Intl Enviro

111

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Follow-up and review arrangements will play a critical role in ensuring that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are effectively implemented, much of which will need to happen at the national level. This article examines the nature of commitments that countries have made and if follow-up and review arrangements currently planned are consistent with those. In particular, we consider the need to encompass both the global SDG targets and the nationally defined targets foreseen. We also discuss the balance between following up and reviewing outcomes vis-a-vis behaviour to achieve those outcomes. Following a review of current plans for follow-up and review, we further draw lessons from principal-agent theory and from the two predecessors of the SDGs, Agenda 21 and the Millennium Development Goals. We conclude that increased attention and visibility of nationally defined and internalized targets is likely to enhance implementation effectiveness, and that they should therefore be accommodated in the follow-up and review systems.

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“…Moreover, traditional development has been informed by standards reflected in economic growth, globalization, and ideas about modernity, and validated by western concepts of science and time. In addressing the MDGs specifically, Hulme and James (2010) write that the Goals are guidelines whose aims are to be achieved by the rich or developed countries with little input from developing countries:…”

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The Power of Narrative and Local Tradition in International Health Development: Reducing the Incidence of Malaria among Three Villages in SE Asia

Herda

Dzubur

2017

International Journal of Asian Social Science

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Article HistoryInternational development is at the center of efforts to reduce poverty worldwide. Most development projects are based on the idea that economic growth results in poverty reduction. Economic growth, a laudable goal, cannot alone serve as the most important marker for sustainable development, as noted by the lack of progress in reaching the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. We argue the case for more culturally and socially centered purposes to inform the development act. There needs to be a broader research and development base for the developer as we increasingly recognize the tyranny of poverty plaguing millions. The traditional development format relies on an epistemological framework for determining needs and for measuring success. As anthropologists, we introduce an ontological and interpretive framework, grounded in critical hermeneutics, exemplified by a health project carried out among three Ahka farming villages in SE Asia, the goal of which was to reduce the incidence of malaria, which prevented the locals from working in their fields. Cultural difference come into play when we enter the development act as do people's narratives, imagination, ceremonies, and understanding. The over use of the economic paradigm centered on sets of technical principles does not reach into the heart of on-the-ground projects where the recipient population together understands, imagines, and celebrates new ideas and actions. Moving successfully within different cultures requires a certain degree of complexity and dynamism that allows us to escape overly simple ordering principles and algorithms, and yet affords the developer to carry out research and practice with a focus. Sustainability, marked by living with dignity and purpose, includes actions that make sense to the local population, rather than only to the developers.Contribution/ Originality: This study, one of very few, demonstrates the viability of critical hermeneutics as a foundation for research, planning and implementation in international development. In distinction to traditional development, it illustrates the creative power of narrative and social imaginary unleashed through conversations with local populations who fully participate in the development act.

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The Political Economy of the MDGs: Retrospect and Prospect for the World's Biggest Promise

Cited by 44 publications

References 13 publications

Asset Accumulation: An Alternative Approach to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Asset Accumulation: An Alternative Approach to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Follow‐up and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals: Alignment vs. Internalization

The Power of Narrative and Local Tradition in International Health Development: Reducing the Incidence of Malaria among Three Villages in SE Asia

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