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- We seek to confirm, not to
question, our ideas
- We tend to oversimplify
Don't Believe Everything You Think Thomas Kida, 2007
question, our ideas We tend to oversimplify Don't Believe - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
question, our ideas We tend to oversimplify Don't Believe - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas We tend to oversimplify Don't Believe Everything You Think Thomas Kida, 2007 MDG summit 2010 Some good language Same old discourse Conventional discourse economic growth +
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- Some good language
- Same old discourse
MDG summit 2010
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Conventional discourse
- economic growth + foreign aid +
good governance = MDGs Unconventional evidence
- within-country inequalities +
global trading system & TRIPs + climate change = jeopardy for global progress
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- 124 commitments
- Usual aid-centric perspective
- Limited voice of civil society
MDG summit 2010
- Some good language
- Same old discourse
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Danger is that, like with the MDG discourse, the debate about climate change becomes captive
- f „groupthink‟ and a
donor-centric mindset – dolarized & donorized
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Nigeria – Measles immunisation
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 1990 2008
Bottom Second Middle Fourth Top
47% 44%
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“…what matters in determining mortality and health in a society is less the overall wealth of that society and more how evenly wealth is distributed.”
British Medical Journal, 1996
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Bangladesh – U5MR
50 100 150 200 1994 2007
Bottom Second Middle Fourth Top
145 72
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Malawi – U5MR
50 100 150 200 250 300 1992 2006
Bottom Second Middle Fourth Top
238 121
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“There is no one policy for reducing inequality […] and another for raising national standards of performance. Reducing inequality is the best way of doing both.”
The Spirit Level Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009
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MDGs = Minding Development Gaps
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Empress Mumtaz Mahal Mughal Shah Jahan 1627-58
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Queen Ulrika-Eleonora 1656-93
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Post-2015: method & process
- Revise structure
- Formulate clearly as global targets
- Stress measurability; not perfectibility
- Capture equity dimension
- Include interim targets for political
accountability
- Focus on ends; not on the means
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New approach to global summitry
‘Peer & Partner Group’
high-calibre individuals led by the South able & ready to challenge world leaders & conventional wisdom
By 2013, generate options & proposals regarding next framework; based on wide consultation and a bit of thinking Beyond 2015, serve as global custodian of new set of targets
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