Democratizing the Millennium Development Goals
On September 20-22, world leaders will assess progress towards meeting the UN's Millennium Development Goals – a set of eight global development objectives to be achieved by 2015. But this summit should acknowledge that the MDGs have gone badly astray, and choose a radically different approach.
PARIS – On September 20-22, world leaders gather in New York to encourage progress towards meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals – a set of eight objectives, ranging from eradicating extreme poverty and hunger to reducing child mortality and achieving universal primary education, that are to be achieved by 2015. The summit’s purpose is to take stock of successes and failures, and to move towards “concrete strategies for action.” But this summit would do the entire world a great service by acknowledging what has gone so wrong with the MDGs, and choosing a radically different approach.
PARIS – On September 20-22, world leaders gather in New York to encourage progress towards meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals – a set of eight objectives, ranging from eradicating extreme poverty and hunger to reducing child mortality and achieving universal primary education, that are to be achieved by 2015. The summit’s purpose is to take stock of successes and failures, and to move towards “concrete strategies for action.” But this summit would do the entire world a great service by acknowledging what has gone so wrong with the MDGs, and choosing a radically different approach.