Research Catalog

Title

Investing in development : a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Publication

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, [2005], ©2005.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

UN Millennium Project.

Description

xxii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Alternative Title

Millennium Development Goals

Subjects

• Humanitarian assistance
• Developing countries > Economic policy
• UN Millennium Project
• Relief Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-323).

System Details (note)

• Also available electronically on the World Wide Web.

Contents

1. The Millennium Development Goals and why they matter -- 2. Where we stand with only a decade to go -- 3. Why the world is falling short of the Goals -- 4. MDG-based poverty reduction strategies -- 5. Public investments to empower poor people -- 6. Key elements for rapid scale-up -- 7. Governance to achieve the Millennium Development Goals -- 8. Civil society's contribution to the Millennium Development Goals -- 9. Contributions of the private sector -- 10. Africa's special needs -- 11. Investment priorities for reaching the Millennium Development Goals in other regions -- 12. Strategies for countries affected by conflict -- 13. Fixing the aid system -- 14. A global breakthrough in trade -- 15. Regional and global goods -- 16. Getting started in 2005 : launching a decade of bold ambition -- 17. Resources required to finance the Millennium Development Goals -- 18. The benefits : the case for a decade of bold ambition -- App. 1. Millennium Development Goals interventions by area -- App. 2. Millennium Development Goals interventions by target -- App. 3. Assumptions underlying the resource estimates in chapter 17 -- App. 4. Methodology and data sources for projecting progress toward the Goals in table 18.1.

ISBN

1844072177 (pbk.)

LCCN

2006276695

OCLC

• ocm60591591
• SCSB-5279290

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries