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Global Development Goals: the United Nations experience

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  • Richard Jolly

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This paper reviews experience since governments first began, through the United Nations, setting time-bound quantitative goals to serve as guidelines and benchmarks for national and international action and development assistance. It argues that, contrary to much opinion, many of these goals have had a major influence on subsequent action and many have been largely or considerably achieved. It discusses approaches to implementation adopted in the United Nations Development Decades as well as by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the Bretton Woods' structural adjustment programmes. It underlines the need for a more nuanced and critical approach to what is meant by goal achievement, drawing on the experience of the Water Decade and the child survival revolution. It examines the ways in which global goals were costed, and draws lessons for the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals. Appendix 1 summarizes the wide range of goals, targets and results adopted and the results achieved.

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  • Richard Jolly, 2004. "Global Development Goals: the United Nations experience," Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 69-95.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jhudca:v:5:y:2004:i:1:p:69-95
    DOI: 10.1080/14649880310001660210
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    Cited by:

    1. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, 2013. "Global Development Goal Setting as a Policy Tool for Global Governance: Intended and Unintended Consequences," Working Papers 108, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
    2. Jan Vandemoortele, 2004. "The MDGs and pro-poor polices: related but not synonymous," Working Papers 3, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
    3. Nelson, Paul J., 2007. "Human Rights, the Millennium Development Goals, and the Future of Development Cooperation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 35(12), pages 2041-2055, December.

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