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Abstract
This article revisits the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (mdgs) set in 2000, timely now because policy makers are currently making plans for the period after 2015. After laying out a critical analysis of the mdgs, the article focuses on Millennium Goal 8, the global partnership for development. The argument made is that the absence of any goal to reset the asymmetrical power relations between the North and the South reveals the limitations of the endeavour. The pharmaceutical industry is discussed in detail because mdg8/Target 6 deals with access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries. This target seems emblematic of a problem found throughout the millennium project: the unaddressed need for real economic development. Target 6 exemplifies both North–South and public–private conflicts of interest, which are carefully hidden in official documents behind the euphemism of ‘partnership’, as if countries of such unequal power could be partners.
Notes
1. Wisor, “After the mdgs.”
2. Amin, “The Millennium Development Goals.”
3. Wisor, “After the mdgs.”
4. Chandler, “The Road to Military Humanitarianism.”
5. Fraser, “Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.”
6. Ibid.
7. Cornwall and Brock, Beyond Buzzwords.
8. Millennium Declaration, A/RES/55/2, 18 September 2000, I.5.
9. Koehler et al., Human Security.
10. Balakrishnan et al., Rethinking Macroeconomic Strategies.
11. Judisman, “Preface.”
15. Moyo, Dead Aid.
16. Amin, “Dead Aid,” 1.
17. Tandon, “Ending Aid Dependence.”
18. Tandon, “G8 and Africa.”
19. Amin, “The Millennium Development Goals.”.
20. afdb and gfi, Illicit Financial Flows.
21. Bond, “Is Africa Still being Looted?,” 1.
22. unctad, “Ad-hoc Expert Seminar.”
23. Turshen, Privatizing Health Services in Africa.
24. unctad, “Investment in Pharmaceutical Production.”
25. Turshen, “Preventing Pregnancy.”
26. who, The Selection of Essential Drugs.
27. ghw, Global Health Watch 2.
28. McCoy et al., “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grant-making Programme.”
29. McNeil, Jr., “Five Years In.”
30. Ibid.
32. ilo, Global Employment Trends for Women.
33. Ibid.
35. Koehler et al., Human Security.
36. Corbett, Using Human Security Principles.
37. Camfield et al. “Editorial.”
38. Kabeer, Can the mdgs Provide a Pathway?, 6.
39. Sumner, The New Face of Poverty.
40. Ibid.
41. Kabeer, Can the mdgs Provide a Pathway?
42. Ibid.
43. ilo, “Text of the Recommendation.”
44. Koehler et al., Human Security.
45. Ibid.
46. Kabeer, Can the mdgs Provide a Pathway?
47. Cornwall and Brock, Beyond Buzzwords.
48. Ibid, 10.
49. Amin, “The Millennium Development Goals.”