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The Millennium Development Goals: back to the future?

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) constitute a normative consensus in the development community at the beginning of the 21st century. This article examines that consensus from the perspective of post-structuralist discourse analysis by situating it in its historical context, comparing the Millennium Declaration with the UN International Development Strategy of 1970. The article illustrates the depoliticising bias of the main MDG documents and interprets the shift in favour of market-oriented solutions and non-antagonistic conceptions of global community as the principal manifestations of a significant shift in development discourse.

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  • Aram Ziai, 2011. "The Millennium Development Goals: back to the future?," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(1), pages 27-43.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:32:y:2011:i:1:p:27-43
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2011.543811
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    2. Oyvind Eggen, 2013. "Making and Shaping Poor Malawians: Citizenship Below the Poverty Line," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 31(6), pages 697-716, November.

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