From MDGs to Sustainable Development Goals
The Travails of International Development
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Relations
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781431426539 | |
| Publisher: | Institute for Global Dialogue | Publication: | November 2, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Institute for Global Dialogue | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781431426539 |
| Publisher: | Institute for Global Dialogue |
| Publication: | November 2, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Institute for Global Dialogue |
| Language: | English |
This book is the first in a series that aims to help readers understand the diversity of African academic thinking around the MDGs and their success (or lack thereof); and the transition into the SDGs.
The questions this book looks to examine are:
• How far has the implementation of the aspirations enunciated in the UN Millennium Declaration gone? and
• Can any measurable progress made towards the implementation of the MDGs be equated to a serious commitment by the world to achieve the now adopted SDGs?
These questions lie at the heart of discussions that the transition from the MDGs to the SDGs generated on the African continent and beyond. They are questions that are not being adequately addressed by dominant discourses on development; discourses haunted by the globally hegemonic paradigm of neoliberalism and its complicity in the perpetuation of what has been called the imperiality of world development, and a colonial model of the world as we know it.
This book is the first in a series that aims to help readers understand the diversity of African academic thinking around the MDGs and their success (or lack thereof); and the transition into the SDGs.
The questions this book looks to examine are:
• How far has the implementation of the aspirations enunciated in the UN Millennium Declaration gone? and
• Can any measurable progress made towards the implementation of the MDGs be equated to a serious commitment by the world to achieve the now adopted SDGs?
These questions lie at the heart of discussions that the transition from the MDGs to the SDGs generated on the African continent and beyond. They are questions that are not being adequately addressed by dominant discourses on development; discourses haunted by the globally hegemonic paradigm of neoliberalism and its complicity in the perpetuation of what has been called the imperiality of world development, and a colonial model of the world as we know it.
