The MDGs, Capabilities and Human Rights

Abstract

1. The Power of Numbers: A Critical Review of Millennium Development Goal Targets for Human Development and Human Rights Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Alicia Ely Yamin and Joshua Greenstein 2. Global Goals as a Policy Tool: Intended and Unintended Consequences Sakiko Fukuda-Parr 3. National or International Poverty Lines or Both? Setting Goals for Income Poverty after 2015 Joshua Greenstein, Ugo Gentilini and Andy Sumner 4. The MDG Hunger Target and the Competing Frameworks of Food Security Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Amy Orr 5. Full Employment Target: What Lessons for a Post-2015 Development Agenda? Rolph van der Hoeven 6. Measuring Education for the Millennium Development Goals: Reflections on Targets, Indicators, and a Post-2015 Framework Elaine Unterhalter 7. No Empowerment without Rights, No Rights without Politics: Gender-equality, MDGs and the post-2015 Development Agenda Gita Sen and Avanti Mukherjee 8. The Questionable Power of the Millennium Development Goal to Reduce Child Mortality Elisa Diaz-Martinez and Elizabeth D. Gibbons 9. Why Global Goals and Indicators Matter: The Experience of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Millennium Development Goals Alicia Ely Yamin and Vanessa M. Boulanger 10. Millennium Development Goal 6: AIDS and the International Health Agenda Nicoli Nattrass 11. Muddying the Water? Assessing Target-based Approaches in Development Cooperation for Water and Sanitation Malcolm Langford and Inga Winkler 12. The City is Missing in the Millennium Development Goals Michael Cohen 13. Analysis of Millennium Development Goal 8: A Global Partnership for Development Aldo Caliari