Achieving the millennium development goals by McGillivray, Mark; World Institute for Development Economics Research instant download

Achieving the millennium development goals by McGillivray, Mark; World Institute for Development Economics Research instant download

xviii, 249 pages : 23 cm, \"The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are arguably the most ambitious developmental undertaking ever embraced by the international community. They involve the achievement of targets, in most cases by 2015, for the reduction of extreme income poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS and other major diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development. This book provides cutting edge analytical insights into if and how the stated aims are likely to be achieved. The volume presents empirical analyses of key determinants of the MDG target variables, which recognise that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analysing the MDGs but also devising strategies aimed at their achievement.\"--Book cover, Includes bibliographical references and index, The millennium development goals : overview, progreess and prospects / Mark McGillivray -- Projecting progress towards the millennium development goals / Howard White and Nina Blöndal -- Achieving health, wealth and wisdom : links between aid and the millennium development goals / David Fielding, Mark McGillivray and Sebastián Torres -- Achieving the water and sanitation millennium development goal / P.B. Anand -- Measuring pro-poor progress towards the non-income millennium development goals / Melanie Grosse, Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen -- Links between childhood mortality and economic growth and their implications for achieving the millennium development goals in India / Sonia Bhalotra -- Achieving the millennium development goal for primary schooling in India / Sonia Bhalotra and Bernarda Zamora -- The burden of govenrment debt in the Indian states : implications for the MDG poverty target / Indranil Dutta