Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals

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 ever more imbalanced.

• Part I: The Global Poverty Challenge
  • 1. Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward - Alberto D. Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler and Thomas Pogge
  • 2. The MDGs and Poverty Reduction - Jomo Kwame Sundaram
  • 3. The View from Deprivation: Poverty, Inequality and the Distribution of Wealth - Deborah S. Rogers and Bálint Balázs 
• Part II: Devising and Refining Development Goals
  • 4. The Quest for Sustainable Development: The Power and Perils of Global Development Goals - Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy
  • 5. Going Beyond the Eradication of Extreme Poverty: Debating the Sustainable Development Goals in Brazil - Rômulo Paes-Sousa and Paulo de Martino Jannuzzi
  • 6. The MDGs Versus An Enabling Global Environment for Development: Issues for the Post-2015 Development Agenda - Manuel F. Montes
  • 7. MDG2 in Brazil: Misguided Educational Policies - Thana Campos, Clarice Duarte and Inês Virginia Soares
• Part III: Policy and Societal Alternatives
  • 8. Irrelevance of the MDGs and a Real Solution to Poverty: Universal Citizen's Income - Julio Boltvinik and Araceli Damián 
  • 9. Social Solidarity Must Replace Poverty Eradication in the UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda - Bob Deacon
  • 10. Looking Back and Looking Forward: The Case for a Developmental Welfare State - Gabriele Koehler