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2005: Five years after signing up to the Millennium Development Goals, world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York from 14 to 16 September to review progress and agree on actions needed to accelerate efforts by poor countries towards meeting the MDGs by 2015. This page collates relevant ODI resources.
Simon Maxwell
'It is not an exaggeration to say that a third of Africa's children are brain-damaged as a result, with major long-term effects on learning, health and productivity.' ODI Opinions 39, 1 May 2005.
John Roberts
'The Millennium Project report Investing in Development invites developing countries to formulate expenditure plans based on what they will need to reach the Millennium Development Goals. Additional aid needed will be very substantial, even after allowing for re-allocation of current aid flows away from non-MDG related purposes.' ODI Opinions 37, 1 February 2005.
Paolo de Renzio
'Double aid to halve poverty' looks likely to be the catchphrase of 2005. We will hear it from Tony Blair's Africa Commission, from the UN Millennium Project in New York, and from Gordon Brown and other advocates of an International Financing Facility. But can more aid be spent? More precisely, can more aid be spent successfully? Many think not.' ODI Opinions 30, 2 January 2005.
Simon Maxwell
'If we care about partnership and accountability, the priority for a new aid architecture is to rebuild the UN. The way to do this is to create a new trust fund' ODI Opinions 3, 30 September 2004.
Simon Maxwell
'The key question on UN reform is not 'Why?' or 'What?' but 'How?'. Take as read the high principles and values: peace, justice, freedom, equity, sustainability and the rest. Take as read, also, the many specific proposals about membership of the Security Council, the need for stronger institutions to manage the world economy, or voting rights for developing countries on the boards of the World Bank and the IMF.' ODI Opinions 28, 30 September 2004.
Joanna Macrae
Humanitarian action is both misunderstood and contentious. The lack of clarity and consensus regarding its purpose and principles has direct, and sometimes tragic, operational implication.' ODI Opinions 25, 31 August 2004.
Laure-Hélène Piron
'Donor governments do not always seem to recognise poverty and suffering as a denial of human rights that they are obliged to address – through development assistance, humanitarian action or otherwise'. ODI Opinions 19, 2 July 2004.
Andrew Rogerson
'Gordon Brown has long argued that one of the main ways to manage the world economy better and avoid financial crises is to define and implement international “standards and codes”.. ODI Opinions 15, 31 March 2004.
Joanna Macrae, Adele Harmer, James Darcy and Charles-Antoine Hofmann
'Every year.. $6 billion is spent by OECD countries on emergency relief- a vital support to some of the poorest people in the world - but the way it is spent is changing and there are growing concerns about politicisation of official humanitarian aid'. ODI Opinions 8, 1 February 2004.
Felix Naschold
Increasing the level of aid is required to help finance progress towards these goals. But how much is needed? Would a doubling of aid volumes ensure success?
ODI Opinions 4, 3 February 2002.
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