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Millennium development goals : ideas, interests and influence / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr.
Lippincott Library HC59.7 .F78 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko, 1950- author.
- Series:
- Global institutions series
- Global institutions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Developing countries--International cooperation.
- Economic development.
- Equality--Developing countries--International cooperation.
- Equality.
- Civil society--Developing countries--International cooperation.
- Civil society.
- Human rights--Developing countries--International cooperation.
- Human rights.
- Relations.
- International cooperation.
- Developing countries--Relations--Developed countries.
- Developing countries.
- Developed countries.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 251 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Contents:
- Part I Shaping the international development agenda: From human development and human rights to basic needs 21
- 1 Prospective circa 2003: The Millennium Development Goals-why they matter 23
- 2 Retrospective circa 2013: Recapturing the human rights vision of the Millennium Declaration 31
- Part II The marketplace of ideas 55
- 3 The emergence and spread of the global poverty norm / David Hulme Hulme, David 57
- 4 The poverty narrative and the political economy of development 81
- 5 Are the MDGs a priority in national poverty reduction strategies and aid programs? Only a few are! 101
- Part III Global goals and the power of numbers 117
- 6 Global goals as a policy tool: intended and unintended effects of quantification 119
- 7 The power of numbers: How targets perverted human rights and human development agendas / Alicia Yamin Yamin, Alicia, Joshua Greenstein Greenstein, Joshua 139
- 8 Framing the discourse and shaping agendas: The MDG hunger target and the narrative of food security / Amy Orr Orr, Amy 156
- 9 MDGs as performance measures: Faulty metrics that penalize countries starling behind / Joshua Greenstein Greenstein, Joshua, David Stewart Stewart, David 182
- 10 Conclusion: Global goals to set international agendas 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138219908
- 1138219908
- 9781138400177
- 1138400173
- OCLC:
- 975372317
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