The purpose of this article is to assess the policy impact of the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) and to begin to ask questions about any post‐2015 global framework. The …

The purpose of this paper is to assess the policy impact of the MDGs and to begin to ask
questions about any post‐2015 global framework. The paper asks a series of questions and …

• Both global numbers in poverty and rates of poverty will likely fall sharply even without
incremental human intervention. The regional exception to the generalization is sub …

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to reductions in poverty and
improvements in the human condition in many parts of the world since their" invention" in …

This paper evaluates the major options for reformulating the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs). Our purpose is to add weight and direction to emerging thinking on MDG …

Abstract The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), for better or worse,
have played a major role in focusing development policy since their original incarnation in …

Reducing global poverty has been identified as the single greatest development challenge
facing the international community. The International Development Goals (IDGs), recently …

The period since 1995 has been characterized by an unprecedented fall in the number of
poor people in the world (by the international poverty line of $1.25 per person per day). We …

Poverty is now commonly recognised as a multi‐dimensional concept, but there is less
agreement about whether such recognition matters for poverty reduction policies in practice …

As we approach the 2015 date by which the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are to be
achieved, there is increasing scrutiny as to the progress towards their achievement. The …