From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals

Venue: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch

Presenters: Professor David Hulme

This lecture explores the processes underpinning the negotiation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and asks whether they can be seen as a transformation from the more limited Millennium Development Goals. In the context of a dramatically changed global environment – with the rise of China and the BRICs and the relative decline of the US – the lecture analyses the ways in which changes in material capabilities, dominant ideas and powerful institutions explain the SDGs broadening to include the eradication of extreme poverty, reduced inequality, environmental stability and improved governance. Are the SDGs merely a continuation of the evolving UN ‘Global Goals’ process, or do they demonstrate that the idea of ‘development’ has been fundamentally transformed?

David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies and Executive Director of the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester.

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