Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals

The developing world looks to be awaiting an awkward stage as a number of agendas of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have turned out to be asymmetric. Although official reports had publicised that the MDGs have achieved a record of effectiveness with regard to anti-poverty programmes, having reduced poverty by half, development experts, politicians and officials are under increasing pressure to identify the reasons why real progress has not been achieved. Hence the need to draw a new framework for the post development agendas of MDGs which will be able to keep the donors interested and make sure that past failures are not repeated. The book under review critically discusses the progress made by MDGs in 10 chapters distributed over three parts. These contributions are from the proceedings of a seminar/workshop held in 2012 which was organised by the “Comparative Research Programme” on Poverty.