Millennium Development Goals - Looking Beyond 2015

Zusatztext 'Overall! Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond 2015 is an interesting and well-organized look at the successes! failures! and challenges that have emerged out of the MDG movement in the Asia-Pacific region. This reviewer warmly recommends Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond 2015 as a valuable resource.' - Thomas Glendinning! African Review of Economics and Finance Informationen zum Autor Matthew Clarke is Associate Professor and Head of the School of International and Political Studies atDeakin University! Australia.Simon Feenyis Associate Professorinthe School of Economic! Finance and Marketing at RMIT University! Australia. Zusammenfassung In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty, known as the Millennium Developmemt Goals, with an end-date of 2015. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Old Challenges and New Opportunities for the MDGs: Now and Beyond 2015 Matthew Clarke and Simon Feeny 2. A Fresh Look at the MDGs Jan Vandemoortele 3. 'All the World's a Stage’: Structure, Agency and Accountability in International Aid Gerhard Hoffstaedter and Chris Roche 4. Cultivating Model Developing Citizens: Exposing the Grassroots to the MDG Tanya Jakimow 5. The MDGs and the Incomplete Relationship between Development and Foreign Aid Thomas W.D Davis 6. The MDGs in Myanmar: Relevant or Redundant? Anthony Ware 7. Maternal Health in Lao PDR: Repositioning the Goal Posts Anna Scopaz, Liz Eckermann and Matthew Clarke

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Feeny Clarke
• Assisted by: Matthew Clarke (Editor), Simon Feeny (Editor), Feeny Simon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2012
• EAN: 9780415506540
• ISBN: 978-0-415-50654-0
• No. of pages: 120
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Sociology, Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Social groups, Poverty & unemployment, Politics & government, Social discrimination & inequality, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Poverty and precarity, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities