This is the sixth post in our series ahead of the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants, 19 September 2016. The full series covers several key aspects of migration: from governance and health, to environment and culture, to development and forced migration. A round-up post will follow shortly after the summit. Read the first six posts here on the UNU Migration Network. ••• It’s time that we get serious about development — and really ‘put our money where our mouth is’. For far too long ...
The World Bank’s goal of cutting extreme poverty to less than 3% by 2030 is not achievable, says poverty expert Dr. Richard Bluhm. Development goals should be more realistic and policies should aim to build up institutions that promote inter-ethnic trust and long-term economic growth. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says we can eradicate extreme poverty worldwide. In the last quarter of a century, the number of extreme poor has fallen by two-thirds: in 1990, 36% of the world’s population had t...
Have the Millennium Development Goals created an effective global accountability framework? What is Global Social Governance? What could it or should it become post-2015? Focusing on Brazil, Ghana and South Africa, this paper discusses the historical emergence of the MDGs, leading to questions of ownership and responsibilities of both developing and developed countries. The authors ask if the MDGs fully reflect development concepts and how far they have impacted on national policies, and ultimat...
Just 13 years after the Millennium Summit of September 2000, the end of extreme poverty seems to be in sight. Some recent estimates say that the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) was already reached in 2010 and that around 700 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty. In 2013, the World Bank declared a new goal, to end extreme poverty by 2030. The last two decades have witnessed unprecedented success, but will 2030 really mark the end of extreme poverty? In a new working paper, we...