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After 2015: Promoting Pro Poor Policy after the MDGs
Background
The MDGs have played a major role in focusing development policy since their original incarnation in the 1990s. Some development agencies, notably DFID, have gone as far as to judge their activities on the contribution to achieving the MDGs. What happens when we no longer have the MDGs? How will we promote pro-poor policy after 2015?
The event sought to address three questions:
- What has been the impact on poverty reduction of the MDG paradigm?
- What are the major global processes shaping development up to 2015 and beyond (i.e. the global market volatility and crisis, climate change, demographic change, technology, new policy actors and institutions, etc.) and what will be the impacts of such processes on poverty reduction up to and beyond the MDGs?
- How can we promote pro-poor policy after the MDGs and amid global changes, some of which mediate in favour of the poor, many not?
A follow up event in New York was held in January 2010 to kick start the MDG Review year, with the launch of the IDS Bulletin on the MDGs. Papers and presentations are available from our MDG Review year discussion page.
Further information here.
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