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Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward
Alberto Cimadamore (Ed.)
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Paperback. As the Millennium Development Goalss pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the Global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. Editor(s): Cimadamore, Alberto. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and policies, it exposes the structurally flawed and misleading measurements of poverty and hunger on which these efforts have been based, and which have led official sources to routinely underestimate the scale of world poverty even as the global distribution of wealth becomes ... Read more
As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and policies, it exposes the structurally flawed and misleading measurements of poverty and hunger on which these efforts have been based, and which have led official sources to routinely underestimate the scale of world poverty even as the global distribution of wealth becomes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
175
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
International Studies in Poverty Research
Condition
New
Weight
369g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783606184
SKU
V9781783606184
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About Alberto Cimadamore (Ed.)
Thomas Pogge is director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner professor of philosophy and international affairs at Yale University. He is well known in academic circles for his work on poverty statistics analysis and on ethics. Alberto Cimadamore is CROP scientific director, and professor of theory of international relations at the University of Buenos Aires ... Read more
Reviews for Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward
'Offers a refreshing and much-needed critical perspective on the Millennium Development Goals - a must-read for anyone hungry to move beyond a failing model.' LSE Review of Books `Essential reading for anyone trying to understand how global governance might live up to its promise to eradicate poverty and achieve social justice.' David Hulme, University of ... Read more