This book provides analytical insights into if and how the targets adopted by the international community are likely to be achieved. A key feature of the analysis is the recognition that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analyzing the
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)
✍ Scribed by Mark McGillivray
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 268
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
This book provides analytical insights into if and how the targets adopted by the international community are likely to be achieved. A key feature of the analysis is the recognition that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analyzing the MDGs, but also devising strategies.
✦ Table of Contents
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Notes on the Contributors......Page 15
List of Abbreviations......Page 17
Foreword......Page 19
Introduction......Page 20
The MDGs and progress towards them......Page 21
Volume structure and contents......Page 33
Approaches to making projections......Page 39
Income poverty......Page 42
Mortality......Page 47
Education......Page 53
Nutrition......Page 58
HIV/AIDS......Page 61
Conclusions......Page 62
Appendix: projection methods......Page 64
Introduction......Page 74
A brief literature review......Page 76
Data definition and measurement......Page 79
Empirical analysis......Page 84
Conclusion......Page 103
Appendix......Page 105
Introduction......Page 109
Hypotheses, methodology, data and limitations......Page 111
Analysis......Page 114
Conclusions and further issues......Page 130
Appendix......Page 132
Introduction......Page 142
The concept of pro-poor progress......Page 144
Methodology......Page 145
Data......Page 146
Results......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 163
Introduction......Page 169
Why growth?......Page 170
Related research......Page 172
Data......Page 175
Descriptive statistics......Page 176
The econometric model......Page 179
Results......Page 183
Conclusions......Page 188
Introduction......Page 193
Data and definitions......Page 194
Related literature and contributions......Page 198
Empirical model......Page 201
Results......Page 203
Decomposition and simulation......Page 213
Conclusions......Page 218
Appendix......Page 219
Introduction......Page 227
Debt and MDGs......Page 229
Methodology......Page 231
Results and analysis......Page 233
Simulation......Page 242
Conclusion......Page 245
A......Page 248
B......Page 249
C......Page 250
D......Page 251
E......Page 252
G......Page 254
H......Page 255
I......Page 256
L......Page 258
M......Page 259
O......Page 261
P......Page 262
R......Page 264
S......Page 265
U......Page 266
W......Page 267
Z......Page 268
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