Abstract
The article argues that simply adding new goals (such as peace, security, and human rights) to the post-2015 agenda is not enough; there needs to be a focus on the structural and policy factors that perpetuate poverty, in particular to ensure that the future development agenda is not hijacked by a resurrected Washington Consensus. It goes on to propose a 7-point agenda: climate stabilization, financial re-regulation and debt cancellation, inequality reduction, food security, de-commodification, comprehensive social protection, and industrialization.
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‘Good Growth and Governance for Africa: Rethinking Development Strategies’, draft; http://policydialogue.org/files/publications/Africa_Noman_Stiglitz.pdf.
Richard Kozul-Wright and Jayati Ghosh, http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/feb/05/post-2015-development-global-new-deal.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anti-Poverty 2.0, http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rethinking-anti-poverty-programs-and-policies-by-jomo-kwame-sundaram.
These recommendations have now been incorporated in the report of the High Level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda.
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This piece was written at the urging of Minar Pimple and Charles Abugre of the Millennium Development Campaign, who reviewed it before its dissemination. Regardless of the errors and shortcomings this piece has are, however, attributable to the author alone.
Calls for a focus on the structural and policy factors that perpetuate poverty to ensure that the post-2015 agenda is not hijacked by a resurrected Washington Consensus
Lowry (2012) notes, ‘for the first time the proportion of people living in extreme poverty – on less than $1.25 a day – fell in every developing region from 2005 to 2008. And the biggest recession since the Great Depression seems not to have thrown that trend off course, preliminary data from 2010 indicate’.
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Bello, W. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed goals and indicators. Development 56, 93–102 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2013.10
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