{"id":931,"date":"2025-10-02T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/sakiko-fukuda-parr-after-2015-keep-the-mdgs-but-add-a-goal-for-reducing-inequality\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:00:17","slug":"sakiko-fukuda-parr-after-2015-keep-the-mdgs-but-add-a-goal-for-reducing-inequality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/after-20152\/sakiko-fukuda-parr-after-2015-keep-the-mdgs-but-add-a-goal-for-reducing-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakiko Fukuda Parr After 2015 Keep The Mdgs But Add A Goal For Reducing Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left blog_post content view\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Sakiko Fukuda-Parr: After 2015: Keep the MDGs but add a goal for reducing inequality\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n\t\t<!-- \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/mandrill\/subscription\/add\/3325\/3587\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t -->\n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSakiko Fukuda-Parr: After 2015: Keep the MDGs but add a goal for reducing inequality<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubDate\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/fukuda-parr-sakiko\/\">Sakiko Fukuda-Parr<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t01 July 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">One major point to emerge from the day of free-flowing and wide-ranging discussions at Brussels was the need for a new paradigm. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/en\/regulars\/blogs\/after-2015\/frans-bieckmann-a-fruitful-start-to-the-new-development-narrative-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frans reports<\/a>, <i>&#8216;Among the hundred plus attendants there was a general feeling that we need a new paradigm, or a new narrative, to guide worldwide development policies<\/i>.&#8217; MDGs have become a part of rather than a challenge to the neoliberal paradigm built around the Washington Consensus economic strategy. Does that mean we should dump the MDGs to challenge that strategy? Definitely not \u2013 but one more goal needs to be added, the goal of reducing inequality within and between countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">The MDGs are a set of outcome indicators that define the ends of international development, leaving open questions of means. So they have become embedded in the mainstream consensus narrative where the purpose of development is defined as eradicating human poverty, PRSPs as the national strategy document, IMF-PRGF and HIPC as the essential financing modalities, ownership and mutual accountability as the key principles of partnership and Washington Consensus policies as the priority policy agenda and analytical framework. The MDGs have added social investment to this priority to that agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">We need a new paradigm not because we disagree with poverty \u2013 human poverty \u2013 as the essential end of development, but because we want to challenge the strategic means. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/en\/regulars\/blogs\/after-2015\/andrew-fischer-reclaiming-the-mdg-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Fischer <\/a>points out, poverty is a consistent part of the neo-liberal analytical framework. Inequality, on the other hand, has more potential to challenge it, particularly in the current political context. The financial crisis has brought new intolerance to extremes of wealth coexisting with extremes of poverty. Inequality has risen sharply over the last decade of rapid economic growth. Inequality is now a part of a narrative of what is wrong with the world, especially the rich world and not just the developing countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">As I pointed out in Brussels, MDGs have made a huge contribution to establishing the norm of ending human poverty as an ethical imperative of global citizenship. We need to add the goal of reducing inequality because inequality and poverty are inextricably intertwined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><i>Watch Sakiko Fukuda-Parr interviewed in Brussels (from Euforic BlipTv)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\t<embed height=\"270\" width=\"329\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/get\/Euforic-WeNeedToReachTheMDGsAndDefineANewDevelopingParadigm732.flv&amp;image=http:\/\/www.gpia.info\/files\/faculty\/sakiko_2.jpg&amp;backcolor=0x000000&amp;width=329&amp;height=270&amp;displayheight=269&amp;displaywidth=329&amp;showdigits=false&amp;frontcolor=0xE3E4E6&amp;lightcolor=0xE3E4E6&amp;autostart=false&amp;overstretch=fit\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" quality=\"high\" name=\"single\" id=\"single\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/fileshttps:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/design\/broker\/flash\/flvplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"JavaScript\">\n\t\t<!--\n\t\tvar s1 = new SWFObject(\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/design\/broker\/flash\/flvplayer.swf\",\"single\",\"329\",\"270\",\"7\");\n\t\ts1.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\n\t\ts1.addVariable(\"file\",\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/get\/Euforic-WeNeedToReachTheMDGsAndDefineANewDevelopingParadigm732.flv\");\n\t\t\t\ts1.addVariable(\"image\",\"http:\/\/www.gpia.info\/files\/faculty\/sakiko_2.jpg\");\n\t\t\t\ts1.addVariable('backcolor','0x000000');  \n\t\ts1.addVariable('width','329');\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\ts1.addVariable('height','270');\n\t\ts1.addVariable('displayheight','269');\n\t\ts1.addVariable('displaywidth','329');\n\t\ts1.addVariable('showdigits',\"false\")\n\t\ts1.addVariable('frontcolor',\"0xE3E4E6\")\n\t\ts1.addVariable('lightcolor',\"0xE3E4E6\")\n\t\ts1.addVariable('autostart','true');\n\t\ts1.addVariable(\"overstretch\",\"fit\"); \/\/als de afmetingen niet goed zijn wordt het toch 'fullscreen'\n\t\ts1.write(\"player1\");\n\t\t\/\/-->\n\t<\/script>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p>\t\t<!-- body -->\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"commentform content column wide left\">\n<div class=\"disqus_content\">\n\t\t\t<a name=\"comments\" id=\"comments\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"disqus_thread\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\t\t\/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * *\/\n\t\t\t\tvar disqus_shortname = 'broker'; \/\/ required: replace example with your forum shortname\n\t\t\t\tvar disqus_identifier = '2936';\n\t\t\t\t\/* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * *\/\n\t\t\t\tfunction trackComment(comment)\n\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(comment);\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tfunction disqus_config() {\n\t\t\t\t\tthis.callbacks.onNewComment = [function() { \n\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(comment);\n\t\t\t\t\t}];\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t(function() {\n\t\t\t\t\tvar dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text\/javascript'; dsq.async = true;\n\t\t\t\t\tdsq.src = '\/\/' + disqus_shortname + 'https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/blogs\/after-20152\/.disqus.com\/embed.js';\n\t\t\t\t\t(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);\n\t\t\t\t})();\n\t\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n\t\t\t<!--\n\t\t\t<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\" class=\"dsq-brlink\">comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t-->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakiko Fukuda-Parr: After 2015: Keep the MDGs but add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_2.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-931","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sakiko Fukuda-Parr: After 2015: Keep the MDGs but add a goal for reducing inequality \/ After 2015 \/ Blogs - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One major point to emerge from the day of free-flowing and wide-ranging discussions at Brussels was the need for a new paradigm. 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