Did the Millennium Development Goals Work?: Meeting Future Challenges with Past Lessons

ISBN-13: 9781447335702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 512 str.

Hany Besada; Leah McMillan Polonenko; Manmohan Agarwal

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The Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations were deliberately ambitious, and they ve been the subject of much debate. Now, with the 2015 target date for many of the goals having passed, it s time to assess the goals and attempt to determine whether they were effective. Gathering leading scholars from a range of backgrounds and regions, this book offers an in-depth exploration of that question, with the aim of better understanding the effects of the Millennium Development Goals and learning from them for future policy decisions."

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Foreword ~ Timothy M Shaw; Introduction: Meeting Future Challenges with Past Lessons ~ Leah McMillan Polonenko and Hany Besada; Part One: Global Challenges; Antipoverty Transfers and Zero Extreme Poverty Targets ~ Armando Barrientos; Fragile and Conflict-affected Situations and the post-2015 Development Agenda ~ Clare Lockhart and Samuel Vincent; The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Millennium Development Goal Attainment in Africa ~ Leah McMillan Polonenko; Resource Geographies in Urban Spaces: Insights from Developing Countries in the Post-2015 Era ~ Cristina D'Alessandro; Part Two: Minority Groups; The Millennium Development Goals, Disability Rights and Special Needs Education in Ethiopia: A Case Study of the Oromiya Region ~ Jeff Grischow; Facing the Global Challenge of Youth Employment ~ Ragui Assaad and Deborah Levison; Women’s Role in Economic Development: Overcoming the Constraints ~ Sarah Bradshaw with Joshua Castellino and Bineta Diop; Marginalised Minorities in Conflict: Women and Millennium Development Goals ~ Sarah Hoesch and Alireza Saniei-Pour; Part Three: Micro Challenges Ideas from Early Childhood Development Approaches to Contribute to Millennium Development Goals’ Achievements in Latin America ~ Laura Agosta; Exploring the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) as a micro-Millennium Development Goals’ Framework in Nigeria ~ Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran; Developmental Crises affecting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Achievements in Bangladesh: A Critical Perspective ~ Saleh Ahmed; Between Progress, Stasis and Reversals: An Analysis of the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria ~ Olabanji Akinola; North Africa and Middle East: Economic Performance and Social Progress ~ Manmohan Argarwal and Badye Essid; Part Four: Looking Forward; United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs) and the Arab Spring: Shedding Light on the Preludes? ~ M. Evren Tok, Nancy Elbassiouny, Sofia Samper and Mohammed Sayeed Showkath; Food Security, Inclusive Growth, Sustainability, and the Sustainable Development Agenda ~ Craig Hanson with contributions from Tim Searchinger, Richard Waite, Betsy Otto, Brian Lipinski and Kelly Levin; Outlook for Global Development Finance – Excess or Shortage? ~ Andrew Sheng; Conclusion ~ Jason McFarlane, Hany Besada, Kathryn Anne Brunton and Alireza Saniei-Pour.