The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities
As the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than snapshot fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned. But the performance and outlook for the MDGs can neither be reduced to the sum of its eight goals, nor be divorced from international dynamics the hard interests of states and other actors, and the global dynamics that impact on both. For that reason, this volume balances contextual analysis, the role of formative and constraining forces, the importance of normative considerations and illuminating case studies to deliver a study of the MDGs which has depth and nuance as well as breadth. Poised between judging the recent performance and the future promise of the MDGs, this book is substantial, provocative and timely.
This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Nana Poku is Visiting Professor of African Politics at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he was Senior Policy Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa and Executive Director of the UN Secretary-Generals Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa.
Jim Whitman is Professor of Global Governance in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. He is the general editor of the Palgrave Global Issues series. His latest books are The Fundamentals of Global Governance (2009); as editor, Global Governance (2009); and as editor with Sarah Perrigo, The Geneva Conventions Under Assault (2010).
The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities
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Contents
Ban Ki-moon
Nana Poku & Jim Whitman
Jan Vandemoortele
Aram Ziai
Bernhard G Gunter
Neil Renwick
Tim Allen & Melissa Parker
Philip McMichael & Mindi Schneider
Julia Kim, Brian Lutz, Mandeep Dhaliwal & Jeffrey OMalley
Amy Barnes & Garrett Wallace Brown
Nana K Poku & Jim Whitman
The chapters in this book were originally published in Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Foreword
Foreword
Ban Ki-moon
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 12
Chapter 1
Introduction: The Millennium Development Goals:
challenges, prospects and opportunities
Nana Poku & Jim Whitman
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 38
Chapter 2
If not the Millennium Development Goals, then what?
Jan Vandemoortele
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 926
Chapter 3
The Millennium Development Goals: back to the future?
Aram Ziai
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 2744
Chapter 4
Achieving the MDGs and Ensuring Debt Sustainability
Bernhard G Gunter
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 4564
Chapter 5
Millennium Development Goal 1: poverty, hunger and decent work in Southeast Asia
Neil Renwick
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 6590
Chapter 6
The Other Diseases of the Millennium Development
Goals: rhetoric and reality of free drug distribution to cure the poors parasites
Tim Allen & Melissa Parker
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 91118
Chapter 7
Food Security Politics and the Millennium Development Goals
Philip McMichael & Mindi Schneider
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 119140
Chapter 8
The AIDS and MDGs Approach: what is it, why does it matter, and how do we take it forward?
Julia Kim, Brian Lutz, Mandeep Dhaliwal & Jeffrey OMalley
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 141164
Chapter 9
The Idea of Partnership within the Millennium Development Goals: context, instrumentality and the normative demands of partnership
Amy Barnes & Garrett Wallace Brown
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 165180
Chapter 10
The Millennium Development Goals and Development after 2015
Nana K Poku & Jim Whitman
Third World Quarterly, volume 32, issue 1 (2011) pp. 181198
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Ban Ki-moon has served as Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2007. At the time of his election, he was South Koreas Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His long tenure with the ministry included postings in New Delhi, Washington, DC, and Vienna, and responsibility for a variety of portfolios, including Foreign Policy Adviser to the President, Chief National Security Adviser to the President, Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and Director-General of American Affairs. Mr Bans ties with the United Nations extend back to 1975, on a wide variety of topics and issues.
Nana Poku is Visiting Professor of African Politics at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he held the posts of Senior Policy Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (200307) and also Executive Director of the UN Secretary-Generals Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (200306). In 2007 he was appointed as a Special Advisor to British Government (Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister) with responsibility for providing analytical support for policy towards Africa. In 2008, he was Senior Advisor to the EU special missions to Chad, the DRC, Kenya and Zimbabwe. He was also appointed as principal advisor to Kofi Annan during his mediation efforts on the post-election violence in Kenya and as Senior Advisor to the ongoing SADC Mission to Zimbabwe. He has a wide array of published work on, among others, the politics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, global health, governance, migration, and security.
