Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals

Thomas Pogge is director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner professor of philosophy and international affairs at Yale University. He is well known in academic circles for his work on poverty statistics analysis and on ethics. Alberto Cimadamore is CROP scientific director, and professor of theory of international relations at the University of Buenos Aires and researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina.Gabriele Koehler is development economist, and a visiting fellow at UNRISD.

• Part I: The Global Poverty Challenge1. Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward - Alberto D. Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler and Thomas Pogge2. The MDGs and Poverty Reduction - Jomo Kwame Sundaram3. The View from Deprivation: Poverty, Inequality and the Distribution of Wealth - Deborah S. Rogers and Bálint Balázs Part II: Devising and Refining Development Goals4. The Quest for Sustainable Development: The Power and Perils of Global Development Goals - Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy5. Going Beyond the Eradication of Extreme Poverty: Debating the Sustainable Development Goals in Brazil - Rômulo Paes-Sousa and Paulo de Martino Jannuzzi6. The MDGs Versus An Enabling Global Environment for Development: Issues for the Post-2015 Development Agenda - Manuel F. Montes7. MDG2 in Brazil: Misguided Educational Policies - Thana Campos, Clarice Duarte and Inês Virginia SoaresPart III: Policy and Societal Alternatives8. Irrelevance of the MDGs and a Real Solution to Poverty: Universal Citizen's Income - Julio Boltvinik and Araceli Damián 9. Social Solidarity Must Replace Poverty Eradication in the UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda - Bob Deacon10. Looking Back and Looking Forward: The Case for a Developmental Welfare State - Gabriele Koehler

Offers a refreshing and much-needed critical perspective on the Millennium Development Goals – a must-read for anyone hungry to move beyond a failing model.