[EQ] Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint: Where do we stand and where do we need to go?

Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint: Where do we stand and where do we need to go?

François Bourguignon, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Stefan Dercon, Antonio Estache, Jan Willem Gunning, Ravi Kanbur, Stephan Klasen, Simon Maxwell, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Amedeo Spadaro

Paris School of Economics; CEPII and University of Paris Ouest; Oxford University; ECARES (Free University of Brussels); Free University of Amsterdam; Cornell University, USA; University of Göttingen; Overseas Development Institute, London; University of Namur; Paris School of Economics and University of Balearic Island  

Paper written in the framework of the joint initiative "Mobilising European Research for Development Policies" for the European Commission (DG Development and Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States), Luxembourg, Finland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The paper was funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), UK.  September 2008

Available online PDF [39p.]  at: http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/mdg_paper_final_20080916_en.pdf

“……To elaborate this diagnostic, we focus on some very basic questions:

 

• How much has been achieved?

• What worked?

• What did not work well enough and why?

• What should be done to accelerate progress where needed?

• What could Europe do to contribute to the acceleration of the agenda?

 

The paper is structured as follows: The next section (2) is devoted to a quick review of the evidence available on progress towards the MDGs at global, regional and national levels. Section 3 introduces our conceptual framework, a ‘tripod’ that leads us to focus on the global economy, on domestic policy in developing countries and on aid. Section 4 focuses on the international environment, as well as on policies in developed countries that may affect developing countries through international markets. Section 5 deals with the financing of development and the MDGs through ODA. Section 6 considers the role of domestic policies. Section 7 examines the road ahead, drawing the lessons learned so far on MDGs, as an instrument to promote, plan and implement development. The last section sets out our recommendations in more detail….”

 

Contents

 

1. Introduction

2. Where do we stand on the MDGs?

2.1 Stylized facts on overall MDG progress

2.2 Country heterogeneity in MDG performance

2.3 Heterogeneity across MDGs

3. A framework for assessing MDG achievements

4. MDGs and the global economy

4.1 Recent relative growth performance of developing countries

4.2 North-South financial flows and migration

5. MDGs and official development assistance

5.1 Volume, structure and impact of aid: A brief factual review

5.2 How to improve aid effectiveness to reach the MDGs

6. MDGs and policies in developing countries

6.1 Cross-cutting national policy issues

6.2 MDGs specific national policies

7. ‘MDG plus’: The road ahead

7.1 Conceptual foundations of the MDG process

7.2 Is there a case for broadening MDGs for a better monitoring of development?

7.3 Towards a forward-looking integrated view at MDGs and development

8. Conclusions
References

After 2015:Rethinking Pro-Poor Policy

Institute of Development Studies

IDS IN FOCUS POLICY BRIEFING ISSUE 09 -JUNE 2009

 

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/13/43148514.pdf

As we enter an era characterised by global uncertainties such as climate change and the global economic crisis, what has been the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) model and how can we accelerate progress on poverty reduction through such turbulent times?

 

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