Consenting to ‘Heaven’: The Millennium Development Goals, Neo-liberal Governance and Global Civil Society in Malawi

2013 ◽  
pp. 101-116
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Development Goals

scholarly journals Benchmarks for a truly universal Post-2015 Agenda for Sustainable Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Martens
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Reference Period ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Business People ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals

“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.

Foreign NGOs in China in the Context of a Global Civil Society—With a Discussion of the Internationalization of Chinese NGOs

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Han Junkui
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chinese Ngos ◽  
Set Up

Abstract Global civil society should be set up with NGOs and similar entities as organizational vectors, based on cross-border and trans-regional movements that have sprung out of the Millennium Development Goals. In this context, at the same time that foreign NGOs have made contributions to China, they have also encountered a number of obstacles. In the process of providing assistance to the government they have had to deal with the problem of a number of challenges and risks affecting sovereign states. As for Chinese NGOs, we need the help of foreign services to affect public diplomacy and improve China’s public image, however these activities are still in their early stages. Foreign Affairs is no trivial matter. Research into and the formulation of dedicated, specialized methods of administration and service of both external and internal entities urgently needs to be put on the agenda.

Recasting Neoliberal Dominance in the Global South? a Critique of the Monterrey Consensus

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Soederberg
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Global South ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
The South ◽  
World Poverty ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Imf

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.

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