Political economy of millennium development goals: a critical assessment of achievement and strategies

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a noble initiative to deal with certain chronic socioeconomic problems of the backward societies. Targeted to achieve eight major goals by 2015, the initiative deserves critical assessment of its achievement and strategies as its time frame is approaching...

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Main Author:	Md. , Moniruzzaman
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	JA Political science (General)
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spelling	iium-400452018-05-23T03:13:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/40045/ Political economy of millennium development goals: a critical assessment of achievement and strategies Md. , Moniruzzaman JA Political science (General) The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a noble initiative to deal with certain chronic socioeconomic problems of the backward societies. Targeted to achieve eight major goals by 2015, the initiative deserves critical assessment of its achievement and strategies as its time frame is approaching to an end. Based on data on the goals achievement from the relevant countries, this article argues that while significant achievements are noticeable, these are far less than satisfactory in real terms, secondly, nonachievement of the goals are due to three large factors; first, uncertain international political economic structure and market functioning; second, international power-politics which intentionally affect regime sustainability in the countries concerned; and third, domestic dynamics of political power-play which influences allocation of resources for short-term political gains. The research makes a cross-country comparative analysis adopting an approach of institutional analysis in comparative politics. 2014-12-20 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40045/4/MDGs_Article_Moniruzzaman.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40045/7/40045.pdf Md. , Moniruzzaman (2014) Political economy of millennium development goals: a critical assessment of achievement and strategies. In: 2nd International Conference on Economics, Finance and Management Outlooks (ICEFMO 2014), 20-21 December, 2014, Pearl International Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. http://pakrdw.com/PDF/Abstract%20book%202nd%20ICEFMO%202014.pdf
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description	The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a noble initiative to deal with certain chronic socioeconomic problems of the backward societies. Targeted to achieve eight major goals by 2015, the initiative deserves critical assessment of its achievement and strategies as its time frame is approaching to an end. Based on data on the goals achievement from the relevant countries, this article argues that while significant achievements are noticeable, these are far less than satisfactory in real terms, secondly, nonachievement of the goals are due to three large factors; first, uncertain international political economic structure and market functioning; second, international power-politics which intentionally affect regime sustainability in the countries concerned; and third, domestic dynamics of political power-play which influences allocation of resources for short-term political gains. The research makes a cross-country comparative analysis adopting an approach of institutional analysis in comparative politics.
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author	Md. , Moniruzzaman
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title	Political economy of millennium development goals: a critical assessment of achievement and strategies
title_short	Political economy of millennium development goals: a critical assessment of achievement and strategies
title_full	Political economy of millennium development goals: a critical assessment of achievement and strategies
title_fullStr	Political economy of millennium development goals: a critical assessment of achievement and strategies
title_full_unstemmed	Political economy of millennium development goals: a critical assessment of achievement and strategies
title_sort	political economy of millennium development goals: a critical assessment of achievement and strategies
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