世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.2307%2F3343168.pdf

Development as Freedom

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

This paper aims to present a theoretical survey of the capability approach in an interdisciplinary and accessible way. It focuses on the main conceptual and theoretical aspects of the capability approach, as developed by Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, and others. The capability approach is a broad normative framework for the evaluation and assessment of individual well‐being and social arrangements, the design of policies, and proposals about social change in society. Its main characteristics are its highly interdisciplinary character, and the focus on the plural or multidimensional aspects of well‐being. The approach highlights the difference between means and ends, and between substantive freedoms (capabilities) and outcomes (achieved functionings).

The Capability Approach: a theoretical survey

政治自由主义 = Political liberalism

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ilrs.12219

El género y la COVID-19: trabajadoras y trabajadores en las cadenas mundiales de valor

After twenty years of reaffirming its value, the right to development . . . continues to be more a matter of political commitment than of practical policy and action that can affect people’s lives. I believe that two challenges need to be met before this right can be taken seriously in policy and action. The first is to create a robust concept of development, capable of incorporating the principles that underlie the right to development; the second is to identify the practical steps to implement this right, similar to the rights that are operational in the law and administration of [U.N.] Member States.

Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions - Edited by Bård A. Andreassen and Stephen P. Marks

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ilrf.12213

Effets du COVID-19 sur les travailleurs des chaînes de valeur mondiales: une analyse de genre

Despite the increasing use and influence of global goals, little has been written about goal setting as a particular type of policy instrument in global governance. According to the UN intellectual history project (jolly et al, 2009), goal setting originated in the 1960s and made a major contribution to shaping policy agendas and action. But how and whom does goal setting influence? Goals are set without control over the means of implementation. In an IPC-IG Working Paper, I use ideas from the Sociology of Numbers on ?indicators as a technology of governance? (Merry, 2009) to explore the mechanisms by which global goals create incentives for action and frame thinking, thereby exerting both intended and unintended influence on policy agendas. This One Pager highlights the key points. (?)

Global Goals as a Policy Tool: Intended and Unintended Consequences

This article reviews the prospects for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It argues that these goals will not be achieved by the target date of 2015 unless new action is taken by both rich and poor countries. It shows that current trends sharply contrast countries on their way to meeting the goals and those in a poverty trap. Crisis proportions have been reached in deterioration of life expectancy and falling incomes, but also in a wide range of other indicators in countries such as Zambia as well as Nepal. The origins of this crisis are not just poor governance or poor macroeconomic policies, but rather the difficulties of competing in global markets. A priority for these countries is to invest in basic education and health, infrastructure, agriculture and manufacturing. Rich countries have fallen seriously behind in living up to their promises to increase aid, debt relief and access to their markets for exports from developing countries — with the welcome but still inadequate increase in aid to reach the 0.7 per cent GDP target, with the collapse of trade talks at Cancun, slow implementation of HIPC, and slow progress in implementation of TRIPS provision for access to technology. Business as usual will not be enough to meet the goals and new action is urgently needed to achieve the goals.

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Papers

El género y la COVID-19: trabajadoras y trabajadores en las cadenas mundiales de valor

Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions - Edited by Bård A. Andreassen and Stephen P. Marks

Effets du COVID-19 sur les travailleurs des chaînes de valeur mondiales: une analyse de genre

Global Goals as a Policy Tool: Intended and Unintended Consequences

The Millennium Development Goals: The Pledge of World Leaders to End Poverty Will Not Be Met with Business as Usual