Reproducing Inequalities through Development: The MDGs and the Politics of Method

Weber, Heloise

doi:10.1080/14747731.2015.1039250

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“…A number of studies have suggested that the ‘enabling environment’ promoted under neoliberal development policy is problematic (Barkin, ; Weber ), as this means that the development landscape ends up being dominated by powerful corporations, financial institutions and local elites (Kumi et al , ). This does nothing to challenge patterns of distributions and structural inequality.…”

Section: Critiques Of the Positioning Of The Private Sector As A Devementioning

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The Private Sector and the SDGs: The Need to Move Beyond ‘Business as Usual’

Scheyvens

Banks

Hughes

2016

Sustainable Development

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In September 2015, world leaders gathered in New York to endorse the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Ban Ki-moon asserts that the SDGs signal a 'paradigm shift for people and the planet' (UN 2014: para. 24). Significantly, under this new agenda there are expectations that businesses, government and civil society actors will be equally responsible for progressing a more sustainable path forward. Many assert that the private sector has particular strengths to bring to bear in delivering on the SDGs, including innovation, responsiveness, efficiency and provision of specific skills and resources. Interestingly, the business sector had a strong role in influencing development of the SDGs. In this paper we discuss the challenge being put forth to business actors by the SDGs, reflecting on both the potential for more sustainable and responsible practices and on the limits to change.

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Section: Critiques Of the Positioning Of The Private Sector As A Devementioning

confidence: 99%

The Private Sector and the SDGs: The Need to Move Beyond ‘Business as Usual’

Scheyvens

Banks

Hughes

2016

Sustainable Development

534

389

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“…But, Amin (2006) notes that development goals on poverty reduction is nothing but an empty incantation as long as the policies that generate poverty are not analysed, denounced and alternatives are not proposed. Weber (2015) concurs with this view and asserts that the implications are far more pernicious.…”

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A Critical Note on Poverty Eradication Target of Sustainable Development Goals

Kamruzzaman

2016

EJSD

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim big -as one of its target is to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 for all people everywhere. This paper offers a critical review and outlines some potential challenges in achieving this noble target. In doing so, it offers a critical review of poverty scholarship to assess the notion of extreme poverty adopted in the SDGs. This also takes stock of past global anti-poverty programmes to set an appropriate context for forecasting potential challenges to eradicate poverty everywhere. It is highlighted that i) a number of poor countries will have to perform a magic against their track records, ii) the world needs to be consistently peaceful, iii) significant and equitable reform should take place within world economic structure, iv) quality and international comparability of poverty data in poor countries need to be improved significantly, and v) uncertainty about required investment in poor countries should be addressed rigorously in order for achieving poverty eradication target of the SDGs. These lead to the argument that without strong political commitments by all related stakeholders and an approach to look beyond existing models poverty eradication target may turn out to be another statement of good intentions by the international aid architecture with little meaningful practical relevance.

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“…The finding, that trade and socioeconomic drivers of agricultural development are associated with reduced inequalities in food availability among countries with respect to the baseline of biophysical endowment inequality (i.e., inequality in the potential to produce food), is an interesting one. This result should be considered in the light of the complex relationship between globalization, economic growth, technological change, and income inequality within and across countries, which is at the center of heated scientific and political debates (e.g., Polanyi 1944, Rawls et al 1987, Sen 1999, Gallino 2000, Vercelli and Borghesi 2005, Sachs 2015, Weber 2015, Kohler et al 2017). Moreover, this result is consistent with the income global inequality trend described by Atkinson (2015), that illustrates how in the recent history there has been a transition from a moment in which inequality within rich countries was declining while inequality between countries was rising to the current pattern in which inequality between countries is narrowing, but inequality within is on the raise.…”

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Food Inequality, Injustice, and Rights

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As humanity continues to grow in size, questions related to human rights and the existing unequal distribution of food resources have taken on greater urgency. Is inequality in food access unjust or a regrettable consequence of the geographic distribution of biophysical resources? To what extent are there obligations to redress inequalities in access to food? We draw from a human rights perspective to identify obligations associated with access to food and develop a quantitative framework to evaluate the fulfillment of the human right to food. We discuss the capacity of socioeconomic development to reduce inequalities in per capita food availability with respect to the distribution of biophysical resources among countries. Although, at the country level, international trade shows the capacity to reduce human rights deficits by increasing food availability in countries with limited food production, whether it actually improves the fulfillment of the right to food will depend on within-country inequality.

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Reproducing Inequalities through Development: The MDGs and the Politics of Method

Cited by 37 publications

References 36 publications

The Private Sector and the SDGs: The Need to Move Beyond ‘Business as Usual’

The Private Sector and the SDGs: The Need to Move Beyond ‘Business as Usual’

A Critical Note on Poverty Eradication Target of Sustainable Development Goals

Food Inequality, Injustice, and Rights

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