Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Gebundenes Buch

Millennium Development Goals

Ideas, Interests and Influence

Beschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive resource on the MDGs which includes information on their origins, trajectory, and effects, and how they shaped the policy agenda and thinking about international development. The author argues that the MDGs were a reductionist agenda that did not incorporate the more transformative and progressive elements of a human development strategy. As well as providing an historical account, this volume also questions the effectiveness of global goal setting as an instrument of global governance. It will interest students, researchers and policy-makers in the fields of development, politics, policy, and global goal setting.

Autor

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School, New York. From 1995 to 2004, she was Director of the UNDP Human Development Reports.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781138219908
• ISBN-10: 1138219908
• Artikelnr.: 57044516

Rezensionen

'This book, by one of the foremost analysts of development goals, presents a review of the strong influence but also the limitations of the United Nations' MDGs. It holds important lessons on the use of global goals, and it is a must read in the era of the SDGs launched by the UN in 2015.' - José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, Columbia University, USA. Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs



'This critically important book examines the consequences of using numerical goals for development. Focusing on the major contemporary development initiative, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr exposes serious limitations of governance by indicators, particularly for a human rights approach to development.' Sally Engle Merry, New York University and author of 'The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking'

'Just like the king in "The Little Prince" claimed to command the sun to set every evening, the MDGs have been credited with results that would most likely have happened anyhow, while obscuring increased inequalities and structural causes. A privileged witness and participant, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr brilliantly documents in this book two decades of development practice and narrative and draws unavoidable conclusions.' - Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social Watch