With the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) showing uneven progress, this review
identifies possible limitations arising from the MDG framework itself rather than extrinsic …

Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the
work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles argues that financial governance is …

This paper analyzes the impact of data gap in Millennium Development Goals'(MDGs)
performance indicators on actual performance success of MDGs. Performance success …

This article expands research on adaptive governance in natural resource and climate
change policy into other policy areas and the larger context of reform. The purpose is to …

Looking at today's policy challenges in richer and poorer countries through the analytical
lens of global public goods (GPGs), including the links between GPG provisioning and …

Recognising that aid effectiveness critically depends upon the quality of host‐country
institutions and policies, international aid agencies have sought to inform their activities …

This background paper was prepared for the UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN
Development Agenda. An earlier version was presented to the UN Expert Group meeting …

This paper seeks to analyse Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in prospect rather than
retrospect. In doing so, it begins with a critical evaluation of their conception and design to …

This paper aims at providing an estimate of the resource envelope required in order to
achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on the global level. As widely …

We raise some basic conceptual questions regarding global development goals: Why have
them at all? What function, if any, might they serve, and under what conditions could they do …