Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward

by Alberto Cimadamore (Editor), Gabriele Koehler (Editor), Thomas Pogge (Editor)

Overview

As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and policies, it exposes the structurally flawed and misleading measurements of poverty and hunger on which these efforts have been based, and which have led official sources to routinely underestimate the scale of world poverty even as the global distribution of wealth becomes ever more imbalanced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783606214
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/15/2016
Series:	International Studies in Poverty Research
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Thomas Pogge is director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner professor of philosophy and international affairs at Yale University. He is well known in academic circles for his work on poverty statistics analysis and on ethics.

Alberto Cimadamore is CROP scientific director, and professor of theory of international relations at the University of Buenos Aires and researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina.

Gabriele Koehler is development economist, and a visiting fellow at UNRISD.
THOMAS POGGE received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University, He has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including various books on Rawls and global justice. He is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is also editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.

Thomas Pogge is Leitner professor of philosophy and international affairs at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Global Poverty Challenge
1. Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward - Alberto D. Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler and Thomas Pogge
2. The MDGs and Poverty Reduction - Jomo Kwame Sundaram
3. The View from Deprivation: Poverty, Inequality and the Distribution of Wealth - Deborah S. Rogers and Bálint Balázs

Part II: Devising and Refining Development Goals
4. The Quest for Sustainable Development: The Power and Perils of Global Development Goals - Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy
5. Going Beyond the Eradication of Extreme Poverty: Debating the Sustainable Development Goals in Brazil - Rômulo Paes-Sousa and Paulo de Martino Jannuzzi
6. The MDGs Versus An Enabling Global Environment for Development: Issues for the Post-2015 Development Agenda - Manuel F. Montes
7. MDG2 in Brazil: Misguided Educational Policies - Thana Campos, Clarice Duarte and Inês Virginia Soares

Part III: Policy and Societal Alternatives
8. Irrelevance of the MDGs and a Real Solution to Poverty: Universal Citizen's Income - Julio Boltvinik and Araceli Damián
9. Social Solidarity Must Replace Poverty Eradication in the UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda - Bob Deacon
10. Looking Back and Looking Forward: The Case for a Developmental Welfare State - Gabriele Koehler

Editorial Reviews

Offers a refreshing and much-needed critical perspective on the Millennium Development Goals – a must-read for anyone hungry to move beyond a failing model.” —LSE Review of Books

“A thorough analytical assessment of the impact of the Millennium Development Goals in substantially reducing poverty around the world. It should be read by scholars, policy makers and civil society.” —Alberto Martinelli, University of Milan

“Essential reading for anyone trying to understand how global governance might live up to its promise to eradicate poverty and achieve social justice.” —David Hulme, University of Manchester

“A rich collection of contributions from multiple disciplines and perspectives, this book offers diverse views on whether the MDGs made a meaningful change. It is a welcome antidote to the triumphalism of those who proclaim the MDG's success.” —Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School

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