Home » MDGs, Capabilities and Human Rights
Product Image

MDGs, Capabilities and Human Rights

€65.99
Quantity:
Ships in 10-20 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Shipping & Delivery
Category=GTP
Category=KCM
Category=KCP
CESCR
Child Mortality
Child Survival
Civil Society
development policy analysis
economic rights
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
gender equality frameworks
Global Development Agenda
global goals
global governance
human capabilities
human development
Human Rights
Human Rights Impact Assessment
Income Poverty
international aid evaluation
international development agenda
International Poverty Lines
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
MDG
MDG Framework
MDG Hunger Target
MDG Indicator
MDG Review
MDG Target
MDGs
Millennium Declaration
Millennium Development Goals
policy impact of global development targets
post-2015
Post-2015 Agenda
Post-2015 Development Agenda
Post-2015 Framework
Poverty Goals
quantitative indicators
Reduce Child Mortality
social justice measurement
social rights
the power of numbers
UCI
UN
USA

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138057517
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 24 May 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description

Heralded as opening a new chapter in international development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have led to the use of global goals and quantitative targets as a central instrument for defining global priorities. This book explores the implications of this new approach. How does target setting influence policy priorities of national governments, bilateral donors, multilateral agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders? What are the intended and unintended consequences? Why is the use of numeric indicators effective? How does quantification reshape meanings of challenges such as women’s empowerment?

Building on 11 case studies and a conceptual framework, this book provides a goal-by-goal analysis by leading specialists in the relevant fields. These specialists analyse the choices made, as well as the empirical and normative effects of the MDGs to offer insights for a more rigorous use of indicators and cautions on their limitations and perverse consequences. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.

About
Alicia Ely Yamin is a Lecturer on Global Health and Policy Director at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, USA. Her career bridges academia and activism. She has published dozens of scholarly articles and books, and regularly advises UN agencies on global health, and development issues. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York City, USA. She is a development economist who has published widely on a broad range of development policy related issues and is best known for her work as director and lead author of the UNDP Human Development Reports 1995-2004.