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Accountability and MDGs: Methodology for measuring government performance for global goals

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  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
  • Joshua Greenstein

    (Division of Policy and Practice,UNICEF)

Abstract

MDGs are global goals and are powerful tools of international policy because they create a framework of accountability by going beyond stating general objectives and set quantitative, time bound targets against which performance can be measured. This paper challenges the methodology conventionally used to monitor MDG implementation that ask whether the 2015 targets are likely to be met by extrapolating trends since 1990 or 2000, then categorizing countries as on or off track. The paper aims to two broader questions: to demonstrate the relevance of human rights concepts to development policy; and to clarify normative development goals as instruments of international policy

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  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr & Joshua Greenstein, 2011. "Accountability and MDGs: Methodology for measuring government performance for global goals," Working papers 1110, UNICEF,Division of Policy and Strategy.
    • Handle: RePEc:uce:wpaper:1110
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    1. David Hulme & Rorden Wilkinson, 2012. "Brave new world: global development goals after 2015," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 16812, GDI, The University of Manchester.

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    Keywords

    Millennium Development Goals; poverty; human rights based approach; development goals; international policy;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O21 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Planning Models; Planning Policy
    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
    • O23 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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