Report of the Managing Director to the International Monetary and Financial Committee on the IMF's Policy Agenda

Policy Papers ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (74) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crises ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Decisive Action

This report provides an update on the work and direction of the Fund since the 2005 Spring Meetings. Since that time, the global economy has enjoyed strong growth--albeit with significant regional differences--and an absence of major financial crises, even though growing imbalances and rising oil prices have clouded the outlook. Although some steps the Fund has been advocating for some time have been taken--for example, increased flexibility in exchange rate regimes in Asia—decisive action to reduce global imbalances has remained elusive. At the same time, progress toward the Millennium Development Goals MDGs) remains slow and uneven,1 highlighting the need for concerted action by all countries. Further impetus is also urgently needed to move the Doha Round of trade negotiations toward an ambitious conclusion.

Funding the Millennium Development Goals: A Challenge for Global Public Finance

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. ATKINSON
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Intellectual Challenge

The UN commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 poses a major challenge. It is, first and foremost, a political challenge to wealthy countries, to provide the necessary transfer of resources, and to developing countries, to make effective use of these transfers. But it is also an intellectual challenge, to economists and other scientists, to better understand the processes by which the MDGs can be achieved. This article focuses on two aspects. On the substantive side, it examines how we can achieve increased funding for development, particularly via new methods of finance, such as global taxes. On the intellectual side, it describes how a new branch of economics is developing – global public finance – that can contribute to the analysis of new sources of funding for the MDGs and of the working of the global economy.

scholarly journals Shrink and share: humanity's present and future Ecological Footprint

2007 ◽  
Vol 363 (1491) ◽  
pp. 467-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Kitzes ◽  
Mathis Wackernagel ◽  
Jonathan Loh ◽  
Audrey Peller ◽  
Steven Goldfinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Minimum Condition ◽  
Ecosystem Goods And Services ◽  
Agricultural Ecosystems ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Biological Capacity ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Total Capacity

Sustainability is the possibility of all people living rewarding lives within the means of nature. Despite ample recognition of the importance of achieving sustainable development, exemplified by the Rio Declaration of 1992 and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, the global economy fails to meet the most fundamental minimum condition for sustainability—that human demand for ecosystem goods and services remains within the biosphere's total capacity. In 2002, humanity operated in a state of overshoot, demanding over 20% more biological capacity than the Earth's ecosystems could regenerate in that year. Using the Ecological Footprint as an accounting tool, we propose and discuss three possible global scenarios for the future of human demand and ecosystem supply. Bringing humanity out of overshoot and onto a potentially sustainable path will require managing the consumption of food, fibre and energy, and maintaining or increasing the productivity of natural and agricultural ecosystems.

Enhancing the Transformative Potential of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Global Jurist ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Akestoridi ◽  
Francesco Seatzu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Missed Opportunity

AbstractThis work consists in a critical examination of an argument which purports to prove that unless the mainstream model which dominates the development industry changes, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will become a missed opportunity to eradicate poverty. The work is structured into three sections (plus an introduction and a conclusion) as follows: section one provides an overview of the previous UN policy agenda, the Millennium Development Goals; section two examines the SDGs framework as articulated in the 2030 Agenda. Building upon the latter, section three inquires why socio-economic growth should be the sole measure of human progress.

scholarly journals Transnational Co-Operation in Food, Agriculture, Environment and Health in Historical Perspective: Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
CORNELIA KNAB ◽  
AMALIA RIBI FORCLAZ
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crises ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Food

In September 2000, the United Nations (UN) presented the ‘Millennium Development Goals’, a universal political agenda to tackle what it perceived to be the most pressing problems of the coming century. The Millennium Development Goals featured strategies for the fight against extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition, the improvement of public health, the protection of the environment and the build-up of global developmental structures and partnerships. The achievement of these goals was scheduled, somewhat optimistically, for 2015. The brief time span was intended to illustrate the urgency of the issues and to spur the world into action. Just over a decade after their announcement, and not unexpectedly, the realisation of these goals has proved to be fraught with problems and by now the prospect of their universal achievement has receded into the distant future. Despite huge publicity and public endorsement, the UN's expectations for progress or at least alleviation of major problems are now difficult to maintain as the situation has been exacerbated by global food, economic and financial crises. Comprehensive global success stories, such as the eradication of certain infectious diseases, are rare. As the UN's progress review shows, the close and complex entwinement of these problems within the context of globalisation remains a major challenge.

Development as a historical component of the United Nations’ crime policy agenda: From social defence to the Millennium Development Goals

2019 ◽  
pp. 174889581987745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrett Blaustein ◽  
Tom Chodor ◽  
Nathan W Pino
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Drug Control ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Crime Policy ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

This article presents a historical analysis of the intellectual and institutional origins of the international community’s interest in the link between crime and development leading up to the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. Drawing on a combination of documentary sources and interviews with long-time international crime policy insiders, it traces this interest back to the United Nations’ social defence agenda which emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War. We situate this agenda in relation to the Western aspiration to advance the Modernization project and reflect on how its shortcomings together with ideological, economic and geopolitical shifts at the international level contributed to the diversification of the United Nations’ crime policy agenda during the 1970s. These conditions collectively influenced the international community’s growing concern with crime as an existential threat to economic development during the 1980s. Our analysis highlights how this framing was reinforced by the rise of transnational organized crime as a threat to global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was against this historical backdrop that the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention was established to lead the international community’s fight against ‘uncivil society’. We conclude by reflecting on United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention’s tumultuous early years along with the omission of ‘crime’ from the Millennium Development Goals and suggest that these conditions, along with the adoption of the United Nations Conventions Against Transnational Organized Crime and Corruption, set the stage for the organization’s future advocacy for the inclusion of crime in the Sustainable Development Goals.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

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