Millennium Development Goals

In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty. This framework, known as the Millennium Development Goals, was time-bound with an end date of 2015. With this end now in sight, the international community is focusing on the achievement of these goals. However, it is also very important that consideration now turns to what will follow the MDGs after 2015.

Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond 2015 provides a critical analysis of the MDGs and discusses a range of issues that must be considered by the international community in determining what poverty alleviation framework might replace the MDGs. This reflection is made even more imperative as the poverty landscape has shifted considerably since these original goals were made.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.

Matthew Clarke is Associate Professor and Head of the School of International and Political Studies at Deakin University, Australia.

Simon Feeny is Associate Professor in the School of Economic, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University, Australia.