Alternative Development Strategies in the Post-2015 Era

Jose Antonio Alonso, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Rob Vos

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781472532404
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472531643
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com.

The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 exposed systemic failings at the core of economic policy making worldwide. The crisis came on top of several other crises, including skyrocketing and highly volatile world food and energy prices and climate change. This book argues that new policy approaches are needed to address such devastating global development challenges and to avoid the potentially catastrophic consequences to livelihoods worldwide that would result from present approaches.

The contributors to the book are independent development experts, brought together by the UN to identify a development strategy capable of promoting a broad-based economic recovery and at the same time guaranteeing social equity and environmental sustainability both within countries and internationally. This new development approach seeks to promote the reforms needed to improve global governance, providing a more equitable distribution of global public goods. The contributors offer a critical evaluation of past development experiences and report on their creative search for new and well-thought out answers for the future. They suggest that economic progress, fairer societies and environmental sustainability can be compatible objectives, but only when pursued simultaneously by all.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• About the Committee for Development Policy
• About the editors
• About the other contributors
• Preface
• Overview
• Chapter 1 Globalization at a crossroads: key challenges for the twenty-first century
• Chapter 2 Should global goal setting continue, and how, in the post-2015 era?
• Chapter 3 Do we need new development models? The impact of neo-liberal policies
• Chapter 4 Learning from the past: Which of the past/current development strategies are best suited to deal with the “quadruple crisis”?
• Chapter 5 Towards climate-compatible and resilient development
• Chapter 6 Aiming for food and nutrition security in a changed global context: strategy to end hunger
• Chapter 7 Demographic dynamics and the international development strategy beyond 2015
• Chapter 8 Common elements for inclusive and sustainable development strategies beyond 2015
• Chapter 9 Building a stable and equitable global monetary system
• Chapter 10 From aid to global development policy
• Chapter 11 International migration in the development agenda
• Chapter 12 The enabling international environment
• eCopyright