Beyond Business as Usual: What Might 3-D Wellbeing Contribute to MDG Momentum?

By A. McGregor, Andy Sumner. 2010

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The Millennium Declaration provided considerable impetus to refocus the efforts of development agents around the world on the major ethical challenge of eradicating global poverty. The MDGs that followed have become an important mechanism for pursuing the agenda of the Millennium Declaration. We are now, however, at a point where reflection on the MDG framework is called for. In this article we explore what the contribution of a concept of (3‐dimensional) wellbeing might bring to a revived MDG momentum.

Subfields: Development, Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Poverty, sustainability and human wellbeing: A social wellbeing approach to the global fisheries crisis (2011, background): “But it adds two further dimensions: the objective and the relational (see McGregor and Sumner, 2010).”
• The SDGs in middle-income countries: Setting or serving domestic development agendas? Evidence from Ecuador (2018, background): “…helped to ensure domestic uptake of MDG goals and targets but also reproduced North-South power relationships and failed to engage with the specifities of place and different geo-political contexts (for a discussion see: Chibba, 2011; Fukuda-Parr, 2011; McGregor & Sumner, 2010; Stein & Horn, 2012).”
• Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders (2016, methodology): “The wellbeing approach adopted in this study provides an example of the value in viewing resources as more than capitals, in assessing social and cultural values and in paying attention to inequalities in power and the processes which shape social structures (McGregor & Sumner, 2010).”
• Assessing the Relationship Between Human Well-being and Ecosystem Services: A Review of Frameworks (2014, background): “Flexible frameworks for multiple objective and subjective dimensions Integrating these interdisciplinary contributions exposes a conception of well-being in which each component can and must be viewed simultaneously through objective, subjective, and relational lenses (McGregor and Sumner 2010).”