Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward

Cimadamore, Alberto D. (Editor)/ Koehler, Gabriele (Editor)/ Pogge, Thomas (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1783606193 / ISBN 13: 9781783606191

Published by Zed Books, 2016

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268 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783606193
• ISBN 13: 9781783606191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and policies, it exposes the structurally flawed and misleading measurements of poverty and hunger on which these efforts have been based, and which have led official sources to routinely underestimate the scale of world poverty even as the global distribution of wealth becomes ever more imbalanced.

About the Authors

Juliana Martínez Franzoni is associate professor of political science at the University of Costa Rica.

THOMAS POGGE received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University, He has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including various books on Rawls and global justice. He is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is also editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.

Thomas Pogge is Leitner professor of philosophy and international affairs at Yale University.