UN Millennium Development Library: Overview

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-47180-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 92 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

This book presents the findings & recommendations of the UN Millennium Project to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It describes the importance of the MDGs and gives an explanation of the progress. The book provides recommendations to be implemented at the country level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Project, UN Millennium

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface -- Contributors -- Task force reports -- Millennium Development Goals -- Ten key recommendations -- 1 Why the Goals are important and why we're falling short -- The fulcrum of international development policy -- The means to a productive life -- A linchpin to global security -- Where we stand with only a decade to go -- Why progress is so mixed -- Four reasons for shortfalls in achieving the Goals -- 2 Country-level processes to achieve the Goals -- Designing a national strategy to achieve the Goals -- Working back from the 2015 targets and timelines -- Priority public investments to empower poor people -- The key elements for rapid scale-up -- Good governance to achieve the Goals -- 3 Recommendations fo r the international system -- to support country-level processes -- Fixing the aid system -- Key measures to improve aid delivery -- A breakthrough in global trade -- Regional and global public goods -- Getting started in 2005— launching a decade of bold ambition -- 4 The costs and benefits o f achieving the -- Millennium Development Goals -- Expanding the financial envelope to achieve the Goals -- The benefits: the case for a decade of bold ambition -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Boxes -- 1 The Monterrey Consensus as a framework for global partnership -- 2 Poverty reduction and global security -- 3 The means to a productive life -- 4 Partners in pursuing the Goals -- 5 MDG priorities for each region -- 6 Scaling up success -- 7 What advanced economies can do to achieve the Goals -- 8 Large-scale aid works—when done properly -- 9 Differentiating development support by country needs -- 10 Identifying MDG fast-track countries -- 11 The 0.7 percent official development assistance target and the Millennium Development Goals -- Figure -- 1 Rising national incomes reduce the risk of civil war Maps -- 1 Child mortality rate, 2002 -- 2 Maternal mortality ratio, 2000 -- 3 Share of urban population living in slums -- 4 Human vulnerability index, 1980 -- 5 Fertilizer consumption, 2001 -- 6 Physicians per 1,000 people -- 7 Antiretroviral drug coverage -- 8 Millennium Development Goals financing gap, 2015 -- Tables -- 1 Major trends in the Goals, by region -- 2 Population living below the poverty line -- 3 Agriculture risk, transport risk, and malaria risk, by region -- 4 Recommendations for reforming development partnership -- 5 Estimated official development assistance for direct MDG support and MDG capacity building, 2002.

Über Autor(innen)

UN Millennium Project