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Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals
Alberto Cimadamore | Gabriele Koehler | Thomas Pogge
(2016)
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Abstract
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.
'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
‘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 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
‘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
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.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| About CROP | i | ||
| Series titles | ii | ||
| Title page | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Figures, tables and boxes | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | ix | ||
| Part One: The global poverty challenge | 1 | ||
| 1 | Poverty and the millennium development goals: a critical look forward | 3 | ||
| The new millennium: from an overarching Declaration to specific goals | 3 | ||
| Assessing the impact of the MDGs on global poverty | 6 | ||
| What was the causal role of the MDGs? | 10 | ||
| The SDGs and a look ahead | 14 | ||
| What is this volume offering its readers? | 17 | ||
| Concluding summary | 22 | ||
| Notes | 22 | ||
| References | 23 | ||
| 2 | The MDGs and poverty reduction | 26 | ||
| Global poverty trends | 26 | ||
| Methodological issues in estimating poverty | 27 | ||
| Poverty challenge | 33 | ||
| Rethinking poverty analysis and policies | 36 | ||
| Need to rethink poverty policy | 39 | ||
| Notes | 42 | ||
| References | 43 | ||
| 3 | The view from deprivation: poverty, inequality and the distribution of wealth | 45 | ||
| Introduction | 45 | ||
| Bringing in community perspectives | 46 | ||
| The Equity and Sustainability Field Hearings | 49 | ||
| Global and regional poverty | 50 | ||
| Global and regional inequality | 54 | ||
| Prediction 1: Positive correlations between poverty and inequality | 57 | ||
| Prediction 2: Reductions in poverty with reductions in inequality | 61 | ||
| Prediction 3: Mechanisms by which the wealthy perpetuate inequality and poverty | 63 | ||
| Conclusions from the analysis | 68 | ||
| Implications for Sustainable Development Goals | 69 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 73 | ||
| Notes | 73 | ||
| References | 74 | ||
| Part Two: Devising and refining development goals | 81 | ||
| 4 | The quest for sustainable development: the power and perils of global development goals | 83 | ||
| The evolution of global development goals | 85 | ||
| Power and perils of global development goals | 97 | ||
| Sustainable Development Goals: the synergy agenda | 102 | ||
| Conclusion | 106 | ||
| References | 108 | ||
| 5 | Going beyond the eradication of extreme poverty: debating the sustainable development goals in Brazil | 112 | ||
| The reduction of monetary poverty and extreme poverty in Brazil (1981–2009): what comes next? | 114 | ||
| Can sustainable development goals help future social protection policy in Brazil? | 122 | ||
| Notes | 123 | ||
| References | 124 | ||
| 6 | The MDGs versus an enabling global environment for development: issues for the post-2015 development agenda | 126 | ||
| Systemic obstacles to development | 126 | ||
| Commodity dependence and instability in trade and finance | 129 | ||
| Mitigating the impact of external deficits and instability | 136 | ||
| Rebuilding domestic ‘policy space’ | 145 | ||
| Conclusions | 151 | ||
| Notes | 153 | ||
| References | 154 | ||
| 7 | MDG2 in Brazil: misguided educational policies | 157 | ||
| Introduction | 157 | ||
| MDG2 in Brazil: successful primary education policies | 158 | ||
| MDG2 in Brazil: the adverse effects of the 1996 and 2006 primarye ducation policies | 162 | ||
| MDG2 in Brazil: the double burden imposed by current primary education policies | 164 | ||
| Conclusion | 168 | ||
| Notes | 168 | ||
| References | 169 | ||
| Part Three: Policy and societal alternatives | 171 | ||
| 8 | Irrelevance of the MDGs and a real solution to poverty: universal citizen’s income | 173 | ||
| Introduction | 173 | ||
| Capitalism and poverty in the Keynesian and neoliberal periods | 174 | ||
| The decline of global poverty in the neoliberal period according to the World Bank | 176 | ||
| The conceptual limitations of MDG1 | 177 | ||
| The irrelevance of MDG1 in the Mexican experience | 179 | ||
| An impressionistic panorama of theories of capitalist crises | 185 | ||
| Automation and the end of the wage-work society | 187 | ||
| What can be done within capitalism? Universal, Sufficient and Unconditional Citizen’s Income | 196 | ||
| Final reflections | 200 | ||
| Notes | 201 | ||
| References | 201 | ||
| 9 | Social solidarity must replace poverty eradication in the un’s post-2015 development agenda | 203 | ||
| Introduction and overview | 203 | ||
| The UN discusses the post-MDG agenda | 204 | ||
| Welfare states, solidarity and social inclusion | 208 | ||
| The assault on universal welfare states in a development context | 211 | ||
| Is the social policy in development discourse bringing the middle class back in? | 213 | ||
| Global social policy responses to the economic crisis | 216 | ||
| Conclusions | 225 | ||
| Notes | 226 | ||
| References | 226 | ||
| 10 | Looking back and looking forward: the case for a developmental welfare state | 229 | ||
| The challenge | 229 | ||
| Looking back | 230 | ||
| Looking forward | 241 | ||
| A transformative post-2015 development agenda? Closing reflections | 248 | ||
| Notes | 249 | ||
| References | 251 | ||
| About the editors and contributors | 258 | ||
| Editors | 258 | ||
| Contributors | 258 | ||
| Index | 262 |