Are Millennium Development Goals Just a First Step
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December 22, 2011
In September 2000, the United Nations approved the Millennium Declaration. It set the stage for the Millennium Development Goals, which are due to be achieved in 2015. But have the MDGs brought meaningful results or are they just a first step?
The goals aim to reduce poverty, hunger and disease, while improving health, education, gender equality and the environment.
“There’s a debate that’s brewing about what happens after 2015 when these targets come to their natural end. Should there be more targets? Should you get really ambitious about ending world poverty in, say, 2030 or something like that? And we thought it might be useful to take a look at what’s actually been achieved over the last 10 years or so and ask a series of questions about the impact of the MDGs,” said Andy Sumner has evaluated their effectiveness in his paper
More Money or More Development: What Have the Millennium Development Goals Achieved?
Sumner is a fellow in vulnerability and poverty reduction at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
IDS fellow Andy Sumner
He said, “We wanted to ask if the MDGs had changed the nature of the debate in terms of, had they shifted priorities, at least in policy discussions. We wanted to ask, had the goals led to greater mobilization of resources, so more money for development. And we wanted to see if they actually led to changes in policy and changes in outcome in terms of has poverty reduction been faster over the last 10 years compared to previous periods. Could you say that the MDGs were part of that success story?”
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