From Universal Values to Millennium Development Goals: Lost in Translation

By A. Saith. 2006

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Subfields: Development, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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1. A. Barrientos
2. H. Weber
3. S. Fukuda‐Parr
4. D. Hulme
5. M. McGillivray

In Safety Research

1. A. Barrientos
2. H. Weber
3. S. Fukuda‐Parr
4. D. Hulme
5. Pratik Gajane
6. I. Robeyns
7. Joanna Härmä
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In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Barrientos
2. H. Weber
3. S. Fukuda‐Parr
4. D. Hulme
5. Pratik Gajane
6. A. Krishna
7. I. Robeyns
8. Joanna Härmä

Citations in the corpus

• International norm dynamics and the "end of poverty": Understanding the millennium development goals (2011, background): “…after shock therapy), it remained a potential alternative as it appealed to many in the incoming Bush administration in the US, was supported by influential right-wing thinktanks (such as the Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage 72 Antrobus, 2003; Eyben, 2006; Saith, 2006.”
• Politics of ‘Leaving No One Behind’: Contesting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda (2017, background): “Neither have they engaged with, or sought to learn lessons from well-sustained critical analyses of the MDGs and the zero-draft of the SDGs (cf. indicatively Amin, 2006; Saith, 2006; Satterthwaite, 2003; Sexsmith & McMichael, 2015; Weber, 2014b, 2015).”
• Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest in Developing Countries: Reflections on a Quiet Revolution (2009, background): “For critiques see Clemens, Kenny and Moss (2004) and Saith (2006) .”
• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Short History of the World’s Biggest Promise (2009, background): “At a deeper level, the structures of global capitalism can be seen as shaping the MDGs (Saith, 2006).”
• The Making of the Millennium Development Goals: Human Development Meets Results-Based Management in an Imperfect World (2007, background): “While the radical Left saw this as a sell out (Saith, 2006) – an acceptance of global capitalism – for the centre Left and centre Right this was a ‘consensus’.”
• Global Goals as a Policy Tool: Intended and Unintended Consequences (2014, methodology): “These include the methodology by which they were set: the arbitrary and inconsistent methodology used in defining each of the individual goals (Saith 2006; Easterly 2009); the resultant bias to Africa and other countries with low starting points (Easterly 2009); and the sheer implausibility of the…”