The Millennium Development Goals Raising the Resources to Tackle World Poverty

by Cheru, Fantu; Bradford, Colin , Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781842777350
• ISBN10: 1842777351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-03
• Publisher: ZED BOOKS

Summary

The Millennium Development Goals provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015. If the MDGs to halve global poverty and significantly improve the conditions of life of the world's poor are to be met on schedule, putting in place the requisite funding is an essential component. The economists in this volume from WIDER, UNDP, and other leading institutions have contributed their analyses as part of the Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy - a high-level multi-stakeholder initiative to develop new approaches to global problem-solving, a global economic agenda and human security.

Author Biography

Fantu Cheru is Profess of Development Studies at American University, Washington D.C. Colin Bradford, Jr. is visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	vii
About the Contributors	ix
List of the Members of the Helsinki Process Track 2	x
Foreword	xi
Introduction
FANTU CHERU and COLIN BRADFORD JR	1	(8)
1 Global Inequality, Poverty and Justice: Empirical and Policy Issues
RAIMO VÄYRYNEN (Finnish Academy of Science)	9	(19)
2 Development Financing through ODA: Trends, Financing Gaps, and Challenges
TONY ADDISON, GEORGE MAVROTAS and MARK MCGILLIVRAY (WIDER)	28	(16)
3 Making Sense of MDG Costing
JAN VANDEMOORTELE and RATHIN ROY (UNDP)	44	(12)
4 Foreign Direct Investment, Innovative Sources of Development Finance and Domestic Resource Mobilisation
TONY ADDISON and GEORGE MAVROTAS (WIDER)	56	(17)
5 Remittances by Emigrants: Issues and Evidence
ANDRÉS SOLIMANO (WIDER & ECLA)	73	(24)
6 The Commodities Crisis and the Global Trade in Agriculture: Present Problems and Some Proposals
MARTIN KHOR (Third World Network)	97	(21)
7 Globalisation, Debt and the 'Hoover Effect': International Structural Changes that Have Led to the Poor Financing the Rich
ANN PETTIFOR (Jubilee Research/new economics foundation)	118	(17)
8 Beyond HIPC: Secure, Sustainable Debt Relief for Poor Countries
NANCY BIRDSALL and BRIAN DEESE (center for Global Development)	135	(21)
9 Debt Work-Out Mechanisms: Debt Arbitration
KUNIBERT RAFFER (University of Vienna)	156	(25)
10 Achieving Healthy Urban Futures in the Twenty-first Century: New Approaches to Financing Water and Basic Sanitation
DAVID TIPPING, DANIEL ADOM and ANNA TIBAIJUKA (UN-Habitat)	181	(30)
11 A Political Agenda for Global Economic Governance
COLIN BRADFORD JR and FANTU CHERIU	211	(16)
Index	227