Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Millennium Development Goals

Ideas, Interests and Influence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 251
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781138219908
• ISBN-10: 1138219908
• Artikelnr.: 57044516

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Goals and norms of development
Part I Shaping the international development agenda: From human development
and human rights to basic needs
Chapter 1. Prospective circa 2003: The Millennium Development Goals-why
they matter
Chapter 2. Retrospective circa 2013: Recapturing the human rights vision of
the Millennium Declaration
Part II The marketplace of ideas
Chapter 3. The emergence and spread of the global poverty norm
Chapter 4. The poverty narrative and the political economy of development
Chapter 5. Are the MDGs a priority in national poverty reduction strategies
and aid programs? Only a few are!
Part III Global goals and the power of numbers
Chapter 6. Global goals as a policy tool: Intended and unintended effects
of quantification
Chapter 7. The power of numbers: How targets perverted human rights and
human development agendas
Chapter 8. Framing the discourse and shaping agendas: The MDG hunger target
and the narrative of food security
Chapter 9. MDGs as performance measures: Faulty metrics that penalize
countries starting behind
Chapter 10. Conclusion: Global goals to set international agendas
Select bibliography

---

Introduction: Goals and norms of development

Part I Shaping the international development agenda: From human development and human rights to basic needs

Chapter 1. Prospective circa 2003: The Millennium Development Goals-why they matter

Chapter 2. Retrospective circa 2013: Recapturing the human rights vision of the Millennium Declaration

Part II The marketplace of ideas

Chapter 3. The emergence and spread of the global poverty norm

Chapter 4. The poverty narrative and the political economy of development

Chapter 5. Are the MDGs a priority in national poverty reduction strategies and aid programs? Only a few are!

Part III Global goals and the power of numbers

Chapter 6. Global goals as a policy tool: Intended and unintended effects of quantification

Chapter 7. The power of numbers: How targets perverted human rights and human development agendas

Chapter 8. Framing the discourse and shaping agendas: The MDG hunger target and the narrative of food security

Chapter 9. MDGs as performance measures: Faulty metrics that penalize countries starting behind

Chapter 10. Conclusion: Global goals to set international agendas



Select bibliography

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