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The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Three Facts and Three Challenges<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn July 2014, the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development proposed a universal set of post-2015 goals and targets to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The draft consists of 17 ambitious goals for social, economic and enviro…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Initiatives to combat food wastage: a waste of time?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe recently published F&BKP report on food wastage shows that a significant decline in food wastage will not automatically improve food security. There may be a positive impact on resource efficiency and general food availability in the…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A new global partnership for a people-centred and planet-sensitive post-2015 agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tSince their adoption in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most successful global anti-poverty push in history. They have helped in achieving tremendous progress, including halving extreme poverty, improving the lives of 2…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Boosting inclusive employment through impact sourcing<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tImpact sourcing is a promising means to enhance employment and training opportunities for the poor and underprivileged.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Inequality is politics<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tInequality is the result of political choices. It is now a growing worldwide problem that causes social problems, financial instability and hinders economic growth. These were some of the key messages from The Broker\u2019s panel at the recent Developm…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Poverty reduction at the forefront of development<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tProgress in global poverty reduction has not only led to more ambitious goals, but also to new demands for better data.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A critical review<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tAlthough the MDGs have certainly facilitated progress in Africa’s development, sustaining this progress comes with national, regional and global challenges.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Collective impact at the base of the pyramid<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tBoth multinationals and social entrepreneurs develop products and services for and with the base of the pyramid (BoP) to serve the demands of these poor communities. Many see social entrepreneurs as the solution to implementing more effective and…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIf we want the new global development agenda to be manageable, it is perhaps better to design a small set of end goals similar to the original MDGs, instead of a new wish list.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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An unfinished symphony<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn the last week of September, world leaders gathered in New York for the general debate marking the opening of the 68th UN General Assembly (GA). This was an important moment for the post-2015 process, as several events were organized on the glob…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Embarking on a historic journey<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tEU Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs outlines his perspective on the post-2015 agenda.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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What have we learned?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tAlthough the MDGs are arguably the most politically important pact ever made for international development, they harbor several lessons for their successor framework.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Insecurity disrupts development, but peace doesn\u2019t drive it<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe complex relationship between insecurity issues and development can be clarified by including ‘development disruptor’ goals in the post-2015 framework.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Unlocking Africa\u2019s economic potential<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Equity should be the goal of the post-2015 agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tOnly through focusing on equity can poverty reduction and a sustainable environment be achieved in the post-2015 development framework.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Inclusive business needs collective action<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tOnly collective action can strengthen the inclusive business ecosystem and reach impact.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The inequality of macroeconomic risk<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tFood price hikes, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and financial crises share at least two things in common: They\u2019re on the rise, and they unequally burden the poor. \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tEconomic policy should focus on poverty reduction rather than on growth and should start in rural areas. First of two blog posts by David Woodward.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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What inequality means for children<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tInequality of opportunity provides a helpful way of framing the debate, particularly so as it shows the agreement that circumstances should not prohibit the fulfillment of talent. For children, early inequalities in learning or nutrition have seri…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A post-2015 development goal for inequality?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe debate on a post-2015 inequality target is missing a fundamental point: what inequality would we like to eliminate?\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The Fundamental Things Apply <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tNorway\u2019s recent international cooperation white paper, Sharing for Prosperity, seems stubbornly non-conformist. For it recommits Norway to some fundamental, if today unfashionable, purposes: for low-income lands, pursuit of growth-with-r…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A new \u2018median\u2019 inequality indicator, designed to support poverty eradication<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tFor a national policy maker it is possible to think about raising the income levels of the bottom 10% or 20% toward the middle of the distribution. The poorest can be brought nearer the poverty line through measures like cash transfers.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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PPPs: listen to the farmers<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tAssuming a joint approach would unleash agricultural potential and strengthen the market, Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have dominated global food security strategies. The debate highlights several strategies, for example, focusing on the loc…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Palma vs Gini: measuring post-2015 inequality<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tGiven the over-sensitivity of the Gini to the middle of the distribution, and the insensitivity of the Palma, policymakers could consider a choice between the two: which aspect of the distribution are you more concerned with?\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSharing Dutch agricultural expertise in lcoal partnerships can positively contribute to the eradication of rural poverty. \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t03 April 2025
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\n\t\t\tOn why the post-2015 agenda should include a goal to limit the negative characteristics of inequality and how indicators of income concentration are better suited for this. One proposal that could be used is the Palma index.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Should inequality be reflected in the new international development goals? <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t29 March 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe last few months have been a busy time for inequality. And over the last few days the poor thing got busier still. Inequality is now dancing on two stages. It must be really quite dizzy.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tNorthern donors are more and more working on technical fixes to solve problems of malnutrition mainly in close co-operation with the food industry. Though this will not solve the causes that lead to malnutrition.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Inequality: a political problem requiring a political solution<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn the international post-2015 discussion, inequality remains a sensitive issue. However, it should be addressed as a political issue that requires strong political will to tackle it.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t18 March 2025
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\n\t\t\tThere is chance for us to overcome the challenge of water security if we really live our lives on the basis of respect for diversity, all people and for the Earth.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t11 March 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe EU biofuels policy has missed it change to mitigate global inequality. Instead, it has negative impacts on food security, poverty eradication and the climate.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUNESCO can play a vital role in guaranteeing a focus on sustainability and interrelated water challenges in the formulation of the post-2015 development agenda. \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe role of small scale capture fisheries in rural livelihood, trade and food security remains critically unrecognized in development and poverty reduction approaches.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe key areas to prioritize in the UN\u2019s Post-2015 development agenda will soon be determined in a worldwide consultation process coordinated by the UN. Feeding into this process, The Broker brings together international experts to pool their knowl…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe MDGs tend to disregard processes of change and the transformative power of that change. However, it is precisely that transformative power that is at the core of development issues, the primary goal of most development cooperation and the diff…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Inequality, Growth and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThere is an inevitable trade-off between global growth and climate change. Unless there is a direct causal link from faster economic growth to the development of carbon-reducing technologies, and this is strong enough to reduce the carbon intensit…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn the on-going discussion on inequality, \u201cnew\u201d seems to be the magic word. Unfortunately we still have the old problem, being that 1,3 billion people have to live on less than a dollar a day.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\nThis consultation on food security should shed light on who are the key and new actors in the global food security debate and how can they be better included? Does existing knowledge exchange increase innovative capacity?  \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tInequality is firmly back on the policy agenda in many parts of the world. Many believe it should have a prominent position on the post-2015 agenda. I disagree. Please let me explain why.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI recently chaired a forum that discussed whether a new paradigm has emerged in the field of development cooperation, and if so, what does it consist of? A great deal of time at these kinds of debates is spent exploring definitions and their usefu…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Reducing inequality is crucial to global recovery<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t25 October 2025
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\n\t\t\tFew topics in the broad domain of ‘development’ are as sexy as microfinance. Rock stars, royalty, the Nobel prize committee \u2013 almost everyone seems to have embraced it. Public relations for microfinance has been awesome.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tBudget support is a relatively new, yet already widely criticized, phenomenon. However, despite a lack of evidence of its impact on poverty reduction, it is too early to write it off. Budget support is likely to have a significant long-term impact…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tChina\u2019s explosive economic growth has made it a more prominent player in global development. This brings with it a host of new, multilateral responsibilities. The question is still open as to how China will respond to its new status.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn Africa, economic growth and GDP are still of the utmost importance and are a necessary condition for real wellbeing, argues Dirk Bol. \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tNew development models and even economic theories are redundant, argues Wieck Wildeboer: "As a donor community, we may practice some modesty". \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t27 July 2025
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\n\t\t\tSome weeks ago the European Commission published its initial views on the strategy towards the Rio+20 Summit. The communication has to fuel dialogues ahead of a final EU Rio+20 Strategy later this year. Although the communication, titled ‘Rio+20:…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tToday, less than one year ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, 13 eminent international experts on sustainable development governance from seven countries released a joint statement entitled: ‘Now is the Time! Why Rio+20 must succeed’.The joint state…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Food Security blog<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJune 15, 2025
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\n\t\t\tEditor Evert-jan Quak comments and reflects on new research, publications, blog posts, conferences and current affairs in the field of food security. \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe global ‘It’s Down 2 Earth’ conference on agriculture, food security and climate change was held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 31 October to 5 November 2010. The Broker hosted an online discussion blog where participants agreed that agric…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Millennium Development Goals claim our attention as today\u2019s pro-poor aid agenda. Yet going by who gets what and from whom, the world\u2019s real agenda looks distinctly pro-rich.The MDGs have been a singular success as a vehicle for many in the aid…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPossibly one of the greatest steps towards the advancement of women\u2019s rights over the last decade has been the expansion of primary education. But on its own, this is not adequate to ensure gender equality or empower women. The position of gender…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThis UN summit is extremely important, even for the billion and a half extremely poor people in the world. Since I am known for being very critical of the poverty reduction policies, this statement may surprise. Let me explain what I mean.Poverty…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThere are only five years left to deliver the targets set by the Millennium Development Goals for poverty, education, gender, health and the environment. The MDGs have had success so far: generating global consensus, supporting advocacy, mobilizin…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The Good Life for 8 billion people in 2050? It’s possible!<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tParticipants of the Third International Conference on Eco-Efficiency, held in Egmond aan de Zee, The Netherlands, June 9-11, 2010, discussed how to ensure that 8 billion people in developed and (former) developing countries can have a good life by…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Challenge according to Gjalt Huppes as he explained it in the opening session of the Confernce today:1. We want the good life for 8 billion people by 20502. Environmental challenge: by 2050 growth of eco-efficiency with factor 2-5 (means: envi…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tCould de-growth reduce poverty and avoid climate change? A scientific study coordinated by researchers of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona has recently argued that \u201cThe solution both t…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tComplexity approaches have a lot to offer the aid business, if it is not already too late. We asked Nils Boesen to comment on the blog postings from a recent conference.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGlobal value chains offer many opportunities for rural entrepreneurs in developing countries to become competitive actors in world markets. But unless local power relations are taken into account, value chain development is unlikely to reduce pove…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe MDGs have come to play an important symbolic and substantive role in current development debates and strategy. They are important symbolically because they represent, at one level, an unprecedented international moral consensus that reducing a…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tMarieke Hounjet is reporting live from the Brussels Forum for The BrokerIn his welcoming word Andy Sumner states that 2015 \u2018is a line in the sand\u2019 and that therefore it is good idea to have a discussion on the future of the Millennium Development…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI finished my blog yesterday by highlighting the need for a new development paradigm. This new paradigm may take up to five years to emerge and, from past experience of paradigm shifts, it will draw together ideas from existing theory and practice…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t  In his famous 1955 article in which he hypothesized that national income inequality would increase in the early stages of economic development and subsequently decline as average per capita incomes rose, Simon Kuznets warned that poli…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI finished my blog posting yesterday with a promise to say something about the ‘what next?’ question. Well, I\u2019m always thinking about a book academics generally can\u2019t stand but I love \u2013 that\u2019s Gladwell\u2019s Tipping point (Chip and Dan Heath\u2019s Made to…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAndy Sumner\u2019s article \u2018Beyond 2015\u2019 captures well both the strengths and the shortcomings of the current MDG framework. My organization, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, has participated in several events exploring this topi…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe MDGs are remarkable events in this 21 century in the sense that the goals have led to increased awareness, coherence and global mobilisation of resources for poverty reduction. The MDGs have also shown that poverty is not a national or regiona…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI welcome Andy Sumner\u2019s contribution on the future of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While there has been much debate around achieving the MDGs, and tracking progress of countries and regions, little has been said about the future of the…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe eight MDGs could simply be summarized as a desire to reduce poverty (MDG 1) through addressing its various dimensions such as hunger, malnutrition, poor health (including addressing HIV\/AIDS, malaria, and poor maternal health), lack of basic e…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThere are less than 7 years to go before 2015. Ever since the MDG journey took off at the turn of the 20th century, their outcomes have been monitored and assessed. The interactive maps of the MDG Atlas provide some graphic insights. We need not b…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn the late 1990s, the so-called sector-wide approach (SWAp) became a fashionable new method for handling development aid. It was part of an international quest for more efficient and effective aid delivery that would truly contribute to poverty r…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThis second article in a series looking at development in European countries focuses on Ireland, which is becoming a major and much-lauded player in world development. Yet there are doubts within the domestic aid community about the direction of p…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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