millennium-development-goals-civil-society-takes-action-57th-annual-dpingo-conference-final-report-810-september-2004-57-pp

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Martens

“Post-2015” is the “flavor of the day”; it is currently right in the center of the development discourse. The United Nations, governments, civil society organizations, researchers, and even business people are currently discussing what will come aft er the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As you all know, the reference period for the MDGs will expire in 2015, and this is the reason why the world community is now engaged in the task of formulating an agenda for the following period. But this Post-2015 Agenda can and must be much more than just an updated list of MDGs.


2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Soederberg

The UN Financing for Development conference (FfD) was held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002 to gain international financial and political support for the Millennium Development Goals. Various multilevel consultations were held with “equal stakeholders” ranging from the IMF and WTO to civil society organizations in order to forge a consensus-based framework for substantially reducing world poverty. However, despite the FfD's seemingly novel attempts at inclusionary and multilateral forms of negotiation, this article suggests that the Monterrey consensus is, in the first instance, concerned with reproducing and thus legitimating the growing power of transnational capital. The consensus is not so much about reducing poverty as it is about managing the ever-increasing polarization of capitalist social relations in the South.


The Lancet ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 365 (9464) ◽  
pp. 1030-1030
Author(s):  
D HOLDSTOCK ◽  
M ROWSON

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