Hany Besada & Leah McMillan Polonenko 
Did the Millennium Development Goals Work? [EPUB ebook] 
Meeting Future Challenges with Past Lessons

Foreword ~ Timothy M Shaw;

Introduction: Meeting Future Challenges with Past Lessons ~ Leah Mc Millan Polonenko and Hany Besada;

Part One: Global Challenges;

Antipoverty Transfers and Zero Extreme Poverty Targets ~ Armando Barrientos;

Fragile and Conflict-affected Situations and the post-2015 Development Agenda ~ Clare Lockhart and Samuel Vincent;

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Millennium Development Goal Attainment in Africa ~ Leah Mc Millan Polonenko;

Resource Geographies in Urban Spaces: Insights from Developing Countries in the Post-2015 Era ~ Cristina D’Alessandro;

Part Two: Minority Groups;

The Millennium Development Goals, Disability Rights and Special Needs Education in Ethiopia: A Case Study of the Oromiya Region ~ Jeff Grischow;

Facing the Global Challenge of Youth Employment ~ Ragui Assaad and Deborah Levison;

Women’s Role in Economic Development: Overcoming the Constraints ~ Sarah Bradshaw with Joshua Castellino and Bineta Diop;

Marginalised Minorities in Conflict: Women and Millennium Development Goals ~ Sarah Hoesch and Alireza Saniei-Pour;

Part Three: Micro Challenges

Ideas from Early Childhood Development Approaches to Contribute to Millennium Development Goals’ Achievements in Latin America ~ Laura Agosta;

Exploring the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) as a micro-Millennium Development Goals’ Framework in Nigeria ~ Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran;

Developmental Crises affecting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Achievements in Bangladesh: A Critical Perspective ~ Saleh Ahmed;

Between Progress, Stasis and Reversals: An Analysis of the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria ~ Olabanji Akinola;

North Africa and Middle East: Economic Performance and Social Progress ~ Manmohan Argarwal and Badye Essid;

Part Four: Looking Forward;

United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs) and the Arab Spring: Shedding Light on the Preludes? ~ M. Evren Tok, Nancy Elbassiouny, Sofia Samper and Mohammed Sayeed Showkath;

Food Security, Inclusive Growth, Sustainability, and the Sustainable Development Agenda ~ Craig Hanson with contributions from Tim Searchinger, Richard Waite, Betsy Otto, Brian Lipinski and Kelly Levin;

Outlook for Global Development Finance – Excess or Shortage? ~ Andrew Sheng;

Conclusion ~ Jason Mc Farlane, Hany Besada, Kathryn Anne Brunton and Alireza Saniei-Pour.

Professor Manmohan Agarwal teaches at the Centre of International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He has also worked at the World Bank and the IMF.